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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @quark 29 Apr freebie \ on: Shitcoin wallet, Trust Wallet is removed from Play Store bitcoin
it feels that anything that has the keyword crypto or bitcoin in their app description, will be removed from all app stores, ios, android... at least android lets you install apps from any source, but on iOS, it only allows apps from the store right? why would anyone use iOS?
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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 29 Apr
Because most people are normies, and even if you orange pill someone today, it may take some time for them to actually understand everything they need to do.
We're also looking at an entire generation that's hooked on iOS thanks to peer pressure.
(If you're asking why anyone fully on board with BTC would use iOS, there's no good answer.)
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111 sats \ 3 replies \ @bellabaxter 29 Apr
Most people just want to be bitcoiners AND live a normal life. This does not include going full commando paranoia and switching to an obscure degoogled self assembled phone.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @quark 29 Apr
Normal Life? to be able to install the apps I want in my device should be normal.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 29 Apr
Normal just means embracing the psychological warfare of advertising companies instead of being sane.
For example, people who say "sideload" instead of "install app".
"Oh you put curtains over your windows what creepy paranoid freaks" That's how the brainrot populace sounds like sometimes.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 29 Apr
I think there's a middle ground, though. You can degoogle a phone with graphene or lineage or something else and even still use Google apps (just sandboxed). The phone can still be a standard Google or Samsung device. Or you can take a reasonable amount of care with how you use your standard Android (or even iOS) device and what you put on it.
And yeah, it also depends on how much one's interacting with the system -- someone just hodling may not care as much as someone actively sending and receiving a lot and concerned about tracking.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @javier 29 Apr
I'm an old bitcoiner and I have used both Android and iOS. iOS is better than stock Android in privacy terms, but it is much worse in freedom in general, all the time depending on Apple's fascism deciding what to ban that day. Anyway, most Bitcoin wallets still work well on iOS. How much would they last, I don't know.
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