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Do you have an iPhone? Have you destroyed it yet?

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Apple Inc.

Oh, the hypocrisy!

Yes. No , I'm no idiot.

http://cdn.gsmarena.com/pics/11/05/johns-phone/gsmarena_001.jpg

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/31744/johns-phone-review.html

I was thinking of staking it down on top of a fire ant mound. 

And over a growth of bamboo. 

Putting it in a baggie, and dump it in a stream full of pirandas with it playing Youtube videos of happy goldfish. 

Sending it to 100,000 feet in a weather balloon with an auto release, so that Iphone lovers could watch, terrified, bird's eye view as it fell into a live volcano.

Wrapping it with several layers of wet rawhide, then suspending it from a tree limb while it was slowly crushed as the wet leather shrunk.

You could start a kickstarter to fund that movie project. I would watch it.

then there's the poor, defenseless Iphone with it's cute baby feet being hunted down by 120 ravenous killerbot r/c cars being controlled by Android phones, each intent on reaching it first and sucking it's last dregs of battery juice.

It wouldn't be fair not to give the little Iphone some ability to get away, of course.

Maybe....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Racing-Grannies-Pair-Small-Windup-Race-Toys-Desktop-Funny-Novelty-Gag-Gift-/380813906281?pt=Electronic_Battery_Windup_Toys_US&hash=item58aa471169

I am having a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Always hated Apple and I have never ever bought any of their products till date. That said, if someone gifts an iPhone to me, I will not destroy it. Rather, I'll sell the phone immediately in Ebay and purchase some Bitcoins for that amount.  ;D

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Apple may be gearing up to build its own proprietary mobile payment system.

That’s according to a study titled “Mobile Payments — Blue Paper Revisit, EMV in Focus” from Morgan Stanley’s Research group in Europe. The study was obtained by VentureBeat exclusively.

Morgan Stanley’s PR team did not respond to requests for comment, nor did several of the researchers whose names, phone numbers, and email addresses accompanied the blue paper.

If Apple goes ahead and builds its own payment system, it would be a stroll down logic lane, according to a mobile payment executive.

“It makes sense that they would. It would give them more control. Apple has more than 400 million credit cards on file just from iTunes alone. That gives them serious position to be in this space,” said the executive who declined to be named.

And besides, the executive added, at this time, Apple “doesn’t have an infrastructure in place for physical transactions.”

Indeed, when buying products online directly through Apple’s website or at one of the hardware giant’s retail outlets, transactions go through existing bank and credit card networks, at least in the United States.

While the Morgan Stanley study primarily covered the mobile payment ecosystem as a whole, two paragraphs singled out Apple and posited that it is in an ideal position to go ahead and produce its own system. According to the Morgan Stanley researchers, who cited primarily public source information outlets and not Apple insiders:

“Recent comments by the company indicate increased likelihood that Apple will launch a mobile payments platform. CEO Tim Cook commented on the December quarter earnings call and since then in the Wall Street Journal that the company plans to launch new product and services categories in CY14. When asked directly about mobile payments on the earnings call, Cook said that customers want to purchase content using Touch ID (the fingerprint sensor) because it is simple, easy, and elegant. Currently, Apple allows users to purchase content from the iTunes and App Stores using their fingerprint but the technology is not available to third-party applications. Cook also said he saw more opportunity in this area, especially when given the demographics of Apple’s customers and the amount of commerce that goes through iOS devices versus competing platforms.”

If Apple does build the system, it makes sense that it would have to develop a costly customer service base to help facilitate transactions — and complaints. The company could build one from scratch or use existing customer service centers in India.

What Apple likely would be reluctant to do is build out their own payment network in order to circumvent existing networks like MasterCard and Visa. That would be more expensive than building out a network of call centers. The last time this was done was in 1985 when Discover did it. And succeeded. But that was a long time ago, and much has changed.

The Morgan Stanley report also touches on the potential downsides of a company building a payment system of its own:

“Apple and others are creating an ecosystem of beacons. In recent months, we have seen trials and adoption of beacons and Bluetooth Low Energy (the 4.0 standard). This network of beacons will be essential to a simple and easy-to-use mobile payment network, in our view. In fact, there could be many applications, such as to deliver advertisements or public information, and to locate something or someone indoors. We believe Apple will unlikely launch a mobile payment system unless the supporting infrastructure is ready, based on its historical behavior, since it does not want users to have a frustrating experience with an incomplete network.”

The mobile executive put it this way:

“If you think about it, Apple is already, de facto, in the mobile payment space.”



http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/17/apple-has-all-the-ingredients-to-cook-up-a-massive-mobile-payment-system-morgan-stanley-says/