So eventually bitcoin is gonna have to compete with credit cards and mobile payments. To do this people will need to have a bitcoin mobile app.
I know there are the lightweight wallet mobile apps. Are those any safe? Will those be the future. Or will the future be having a hosted service where the company has control over your bitcoin and you can just send them to pay with stuff with the mobile app? Like Square recent integration of Bitcoin.
I don't know what options are out there now. But it would seem to me that having a secure offline savings account coupled with a hosted mobile bitcoin service (checking account) for payments would make sense. I mean I guess obviously if you're making payments you can't have everything in cold storage so some compromises on security must be made.
Clearly, when we talk about bitcoin(not just about bitcoin but also every other crypto currencies out there), we can say that it is both completely safe and very unsafe at the same time. Just think of it as another possession - if you do not know how to take care of it, it will be broken, or if you do not know how to keep it safe, you can really lose it and vice versa.
So it would be logical to only transfer just enough bitcoins and a little extra on a mobile wallet. Rather than trust all of your possessions in the hands of other people. Because there will always be exploitable flaws in any security.
Hope this helps clear thing out for ya, good day.