Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

Overall, the openness of Android is a major advantage over a closed system like Apple's iOS. The openness of Android allows for more customization, innovation, and choice. This is why we often see new software features, hardware, and accessories launching on Android many years before Apple adds support for these enhancements.

Generally, Apple waits several years for a new technology to mature and be in high demand before releasing it for their ecosystem. They market this as innovative, that no one else could do this besides Apple.

In some ways, they are correct. They waited until the technology was better, they waited until it matured, they waited until it was near-perfect so the experience was better than other products that had it for years.

In some cases, Apple has a better user experience, because they control the entire ecosystem. They *should* have a better experience in some cases since they're controlling and narrating it from the very top.

I may have been wrong when trying to explain this earlier. At the end of the day, these points don't matter. The discussions we're having aren't about which software platform is better. We aren't having a discussion about which company creates better hardware. We aren't discussing which company has a better user experience.

We are discussing which platform censors it's users. We are discussing which company is controlling and hurting people around the world by their censorship.

It's about abiding by a ruler when we are promoting protocols such as Bitcoin and Nostr which do not have rulers.

What can you do with an Android phone that you cannot do with an iPhone? Which innovation do you mean? I use iPhones from the very beginning and I do not miss anything.

If Zaps grow to a relevant size they‘ll allow them again. Like they allowed wallets. Like they allowed Tor. I cannot believe they want to lose customers by disallowing Zaps.

And I’m pretty sure they are already looking into a Bitcoin/Lightning integration into their payment system. They don’t want to leave out. It might be custodial, which is ok for the amount of money you are supposed to have on your phone. They even offer savings accounts with interest rates nowadays. I see a good chance that a custodial solution by Apple might drive Bitcoin adoption more than anything else before. And it might work better than anything else - faster, more reliable. I tried out almost every Lightning wallet, sent BTC between them back and forth, also to and from my own node. The result is a catastrophe. Slow, timeouts and failures all the time. Maybe 50% success rate. It should be 99.9%, it has to.

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