They actually pulled it last year, so the latest couple don't have it. But all indicators are that was an internal thing placed there by an engineer, not a corporate statement.
And yeah, even if they went with a BTC-only wallet, I couldn't imagine using it.
If anything Apple would integrate the Bitcoin ETF like yeah you can own Bitcoin in your Apple wallet and its held with fidelity and our wallet will let you spend at all apple pay merchants and auto calculate your tax liabities and report it directly to your local tax man, its so easy, when you think of Bitcoin, think Apple Bitcoin
While I completely understand why some of us would never use such a feature, I canāt deny that I see the huge amount of new bitcoiners we could gain, and even if yes Apple would make their own "custodial" wallet, probably in the future we could add our own like Zeus or Phoenix for exemple,and to be honest I donāt care to be paid from a Phoenix wallet, a Coinbase wallet or an Apple wallet, as long as you pay me in Bitcoin I like you, it could be worth it for both Apple and the community I think
Isn't the Apple way to write software that is tightly integrated into their environment instead of relying on third party software? If they ever decide to push bitcoin to their users, I see them creating their own built-in bitcoin wallet that you have to use instead of allowing to connect to other wallets.
Would of course be cool if it wouldn't be that way.
After Apple prevented Damus from monetising its services, I developed a greater distaste for Apple. I wouldnāt trust it to do right by WoS or other wallet companies
I really hope Apple would go the Microstrategy way, even partially, and just buy a Bitcoin ETF with the mountains of cash they hold simply to preserve their purchasing power.
Some years ago, I saw a wallet called Spark that let you generate a QR-code to view in your Apple Wallet and Apple Watch Wallet. It was for receiving over lightning, not sending.
I guess with unified BIP21 QR-codes, anyone can already add a RECEIVING wallet code to Apple Wallet today.
I don't think Apple want's to be the middle man in receiving Bitcoin payments though because ātaintedā coins exist in the C-suite mind, and they would rather not receive and handle those.
But Jack Mallers recently told me he wants to integrate Apple Pay into Strike, so who knows, something similar will exist soon.
Apple has signaled it wants to be more involved in financial services by way of its Apple Card which is facilitated using Goldman Sachs under the hood, although I think I remember something about Goldman not being happy about the arrangement or the performance (maybe there wasn't enough financing revenue being generated). And I also remember hearing something about them offering their own debit card, but I could see Bitcoin being used in addition to these two offerings eventually just to access the global market in own fell swoop. The only problem is that the US dollar hegemony might make tax season really rough for Tim Apple if he attacks the dollar like that.
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