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Remember back in the day when Uber only offered a black car service?
No? Well, before 2012, UberX didn’t exist.
The company stuck with launching cheaper options for a long time until the model was well and truly proven by Lyft, which forced Uber to adapt and compete.
We see the push towards crypto-integrated phones following a similar (slower) path…
A new product is launched called the APhone, which follows the formula of the Solana Saga phone:
Put one dApp save on a smartphone → sell to crypto nerds.
So far the model has only been proven to work on a smaller scale, but with each new company entering the market it only delivers small more pressure on Apple (iOS) and Google (Android) to adapt to the market.
(À la: UberX/Lyft).
We have no plans to buy an APhone – and we expect there still is one long There’s still a ways to go before we see any native crypto functionality added to iOS or Android.
But it’s a step in the right direction.
(And steps can eventually turn into jumps).