Quote from: sakinaka on February 24, 2017, 02:25:45 PM

Quote from: bob123 on February 24, 2017, 01:04:09 PM

Does anyone have information about Apple accepting BTC's ?
Didn't find any official statement regarding this Topic

Apple is not accepting, Bitcoin, as Mercedes-Benz (look my post above yours). They are kinda unfriendly toward crypto-currencies in general, and it tooks years for developper to be able to freely publish Bitcoin wallets on the App Store. Moreover, I doubt they will ever be great friends of Bitcoin, since they are in the same situation than PayPal. In case you did not know, Apple launched Apple Pay recently, to compete with PayPal on bankless virtual payments sector, where Bitcoin is. This makes that Apple is a competitor of Bitcoin, and will try to make all its possible so that it does not disturb Apple Pay's growth

While I certainly agree with your stance on Apple and cronies, we still shouldn't forget that all these megacompanies are there for profits nostly. What it means is that if it becomes profitable for them to use Bitcoin (while their own attempts at creating proprietary payment systems fail miserably), they will start using Bitcoin (provided it is allowed to use by the law, in the first place). The same Apple eventually abandoned their operating system kernel in 2001 which they had been developing for years since 1984 in favor of the Mach kernel

As the proverb goes, profits always trump prohpets