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Imagine doing all that work to just hinge your fate on the least open, least aligned platform to your app's and app protocol's declared raison d'être. Do these people really believe that the cypherpunk ethos involves being an Apple bootlicker? I don't get it.
https://twitter.com/siwatanejo/status/1668585129374289925
The only issue with this is: > I like crypto but think 99.999% of NFTs are scams It is more like 100% are scams, there is no NFT use case, it's all just jpgs.
I’ve seen them used sensibly for shipment tracking, and such like. They’re great for that.
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The only issue with this is: > I like crypto but think 99.999% of NFTs are scams It is more like 100% are scams, there is no NFT use case, it's all just jpgs.
The original idea behind NFTs is fine. Selling links to JPEGs was not the purpose. I’ve seen them used sensibly for shipment tracking, and such like. They’re great for that.
Why do this when the current system already handles this? This is no unique usecase.
I can't believe the EU, which has fined Microsoft because of having IE as the default browser, is OK with Apple having a total walled garden in iOS. Which by the way only has one "browser", because other browsers are forced to use the safari engine.
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The only issue with this is: > I like crypto but think 99.999% of NFTs are scams It is more like 100% are scams, there is no NFT use case, it's all just jpgs.
The original idea behind NFTs is fine. Selling links to JPEGs was not the purpose. I’ve seen them used sensibly for shipment tracking, and such like. They’re great for that.
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The only issue with this is: > I like crypto but think 99.999% of NFTs are scams It is more like 100% are scams, there is no NFT use case, it's all just jpgs.
Technically ENS names are NFTs, I'd say that's a non-scam use case equivalent to domain names.
Does a domain name need a token attached to the service in order to operate?
I would say it is still a scam as it is airdropping ENS tokens that were minted out of thin air and insiders pump and dumping the token to make a profit.
You can't do that illegal stuff with traditional domain names.
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MS was fined because it had an enormous market share in personal computing, making it practically a monopoly. Apple is nowhere near that.
Apple has a sizable share of the mobile market in the USA and EU and what they are doing goes well beyond what MS did in the past.
Based off what I found through a quick search, in Q4 2022 Apple has 29% of smartphone shipment and they have about 38% of mobile OS share. Not tiny, but not dominating the market. Back when Microsoft was being prosecuted, they had >95% of desktop OS share, approaching 99% in some places, and they were accused of leveraging that to muscle out paid-for software vendors that sold directly competing software (both operating systems through exclusivity agreements with OEMs and application software on Windows).
I can't believe the EU, which has fined Microsoft because of having IE as the default browser, is OK with Apple having a total walled garden in iOS. Which by the way only has one "browser", because other browsers are forced to use the safari engine.
A bunch of bureaucrats somehow outsmarting one of the most well resourced and talented machineries out there is the thing I am skeptical about. The two systems are not equal by a long shot.
I also love how "bureaucrat" ended up meaning "any government body which does stuff I don't like"
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The original idea behind NFTs is fine. Selling links to JPEGs was not the purpose. I’ve seen them used sensibly for shipment tracking, and such like. They’re great for that.
Could you elaborate? There are a lot of proposed NFT usecases that sound superficially useful (e.g. magically preventing secondary sales of event tickets), but don't actually solve any real problems when you think about it properly.
Can't they just remove or ban anything cryptocurrency and Bitcoin? That would be fantastic as it has no place on the App Store.