Another Step Toward Crypto iPhones
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Keep in mind waaay again within the day when Uber solely supplied a black automobile service?
No? Properly, earlier than 2012AD, UberX didn’t exist.
The corporate held out on launching cheaper choices for a sizzling minute — till the mannequin was nicely and really confirmed by Lyft, which compelled Uber to adapt and compete.
We see the march in direction of crypto-integrated telephones following an identical (slower) path…
There’s a brand new product launching, known as the APhone, which follows the Solana Saga telephone’s system:
Put a dApp retailer on a smartphone → promote it to crypto nerds.
The mannequin has solely been confirmed to work at smaller scales up to now, however with each new firm that enters the market, it places only a liiittle extra strain on Apple (iOS) and Google (Android) to adapt with the market.
(À la: UberX/Lyft).
We’re not about to exit and purchase an APhone — and we anticipate there’s nonetheless a looong methods to go earlier than we see any native crypto performance added to iOS or Android.
But it surely’s a step in the appropriate path.
(And steps can finally progress into leaps).