Apple turfs biggest bitcoin app from store

Ignoring the laughable notion that Overstock is a thing

Overstock.com? One of the biggest online retailers ($1.1 billion revenue), that ran commercials at multiple Superbowls, has #2 highest-ranked customer service of any US retailer (online or not), etc, etc? Those guys? Yeah - they’re a thing. I think I bought shoes from them a couple years back, but apparently they’re selling more stuff now. The Bitcoin thing netted them $125,000+ in the first day.

This is always the problem with the “walled garden” app model.

Precisely. It creates all these absurd levels of almost philosophical analysis about what is “maybe ok” and “maybe not ok”. Conversations about the various levels of tabu and marketplace acceptability end up sounding like discussions about consciousness and our place in the universe.

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