What is the effect of adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

[MoonCoins]

The addition of a bitcoin currency symbol clearly shows that Google does not turn a blind eye to the crypto world.
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-currency-symbol-google/

Google has a significant effect on the cryptocurrency market.
Time will tell what the cascading effect of adding the bitcoin symbol is to the minds of everyday iOS users.
What do you get from adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

[OnceTwiceThird]

IOS have give bitcoin symbol on google keyboard, I think will have big effect for bitcoin and altcoin at the future with price will grow up. I hope will have new product and companies want to accepted bitcoin and altcoin as their payment for the future.

[joniboini]

What do you get from adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

Speculation?

I still don't get why Google add it to iOS but not Android. And this certainly brings nothing except maybe acceptance that Bitcoin is going more mainstream (people, in general, have heard or know about it).

[pinoyden]

What do you get from adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

Speculation?

I still don't get why Google add it to iOS but not Android. And this certainly brings nothing except maybe acceptance that Bitcoin is going more mainstream (people, in general, have heard or know about it).

I still don't get why Google add it to iOS but not Android.

android do already suported crypto but on ios , i never see one aside from this little BTC symbol on thier keyboard . this might be the start for apple and ios user to start recognizing the word bitcoin and crypto  .

in addition to android  . theres already a new android device ( samsung s10 ) to be specific that will be launched with a built in crypto wallet .

What do you get from adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

nothing .we cant get nothing with it but the apple company recieve alot of cash from these implementation . this symbol is nothing for non crypto users but this symbol means alot for us crypto enthusiasts

[dothebeats]

Nothing, it's just a cool symbol coming in to smartphones considering how big the publicity was for bitcoin in the past few years. Also, there are a lot of crypto enthusiasts that are using iOS phones and machines for their everyday life, and this little symbol Google added on their keyboard can come in handy on some situations. In the near future, this symbol could be on Google's Android keyboard too, knowing how many people are really using android compared to iOS. Anyway price wise, this wouldn't do anything significant aside from a cool little heads up that such a feature already exists in a keyboard.

[figmentofmyass]

The addition of a bitcoin currency symbol clearly shows that Google does not turn a blind eye to the crypto world.
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-currency-symbol-google/

why is it just the IOS app? anybody else think that's weird? i don't think many iphone users are using the google keyboard.

Google has a significant effect on the cryptocurrency market.
Time will tell what the cascading effect of adding the bitcoin symbol is to the minds of everyday iOS users.
What do you get from adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

time will tell but it seems like a non-event to me.

i also looked at the screenshots. you need to hold down the $ key to see the bitcoin symbol in a dropdown menu. not many people are going to see this!

i'm not complaining, i just think people are overstating the importance a bit.

[vintages]

There might be two things involved here. First is that they probably want to create more awareness among those  who ain't aware of Bitcoin and using their products.
And another second thing is that, they might have done a market survey and discovered that most of their users are making use of it; this they decided to include it. If that will surely make them more money, they wont hesitate to include it. Lol. 

[sheenshane]

This is probably intended to triggered people to get attention on Bitcoin for those who didn't know what is Bitcoin and that symbol makes them curiosity on that symbol. Or the second option is bitcoin symbol is cool stuff and it must belong to world currency symbol.
We can't deny the fact that bitcoin currency now is very popular that's the reason I guess they include the symbol on iOS in google keyboard.

[Bitinity]

The fact is that the bitcoin symbol does not appear for iPhone users worldwide as some users from some countries reported that they cant find the bitcoin symbol. I'm iOS user (old iPhone )as well and I cant find it on my google keyboard (last update). So I dont see any significant effect from this addition. It is just a symbol in which people are very rare to use symbol, it will bring much more effect if google add something more mainstream.

[aoluain]

What do you get from adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

Speculation?

I still don't get why Google add it to iOS but not Android. And this certainly brings nothing except maybe acceptance that Bitcoin is going more mainstream (people, in general, have heard or know about it).

Yes I agree, this is such a small thing but it kind of normalises
bitcoin and places it with the other valid currency symbols ie. £$€

the only other way to add the symbol is to use an image or bbcode
which obviously doesn't work everywhere

BTC

[yusupjatigumilar]

I think it will have a positive impact on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, because iOS is one of the well-known brands in the field of technology development, therefore the presence of the bitcoin symbol in iOS products means it is a pretty good bitcoin marketing strategy because it works with known brand, this will increase investor confidence and interest in bitcoin and automatically this will increase the price of bitcoin.

[sandra_x]

The gradual (albeit slow) integration of cryptocurrencies into devices used commonly in society has both psychological and practical incentive of making for wider adoption of cryptourrency.It is not difficult to imagine that a large chunk of persons will be using cryptos in the coming  years especially as it is already economically more efficient.

[gentlemand]

I can honestly say that I've never typed the Bitcoin symbol in my entire life. If someone outside here sent it to me it might take me a few seconds to figure out what they're referring to.

Like almost all 'good news' there is no effect. It's another bit of progress to add to your wank bank that forms the basis for a better future.

[MetalGear]

I think it will have a positive impact on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, because iOS is one of the well-known brands in the field of technology development, therefore the presence of the bitcoin symbol in iOS products means it is a pretty good bitcoin marketing strategy because it works with known brand, this will increase investor confidence and interest in bitcoin and automatically this will increase the price of bitcoin.

It will really turn to a positive impact simply because some IOS user will notice the symbol of bitcoin and afterwards they tend to search it and they will try to buy bitcoin. So if they tend to buy bitcoin the demand on market will increase so the result is high price on market.

[nur rochid]

I think it will have a positive impact on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, because iOS is one of the well-known brands in the field of technology development, therefore the presence of the bitcoin symbol in iOS products means it is a pretty good bitcoin marketing strategy because it works with known brand, this will increase investor confidence and interest in bitcoin and automatically this will increase the price of bitcoin.

It will really turn to a positive impact simply because some IOS user will notice the symbol of bitcoin and afterwards they tend to search it and they will try to buy bitcoin. So if they tend to buy bitcoin the demand on market will increase so the result is high price on market.

at least this helps promote bitcoin. of the many who see it will certainly create a new bitcoiner, and this is what will potentially become an investor, so that it can increase demand for BTC

[gentlemand]

at least this helps promote bitcoin. of the many who see it will certainly create a new bitcoiner, and this is what will potentially become an investor, so that it can increase demand for BTC

Rather than promote, something like this infiltrates. If you start to become interested in BTC (my first time using that) and then you notice that it's already embedded in the services you already use it adds an extra sheen of confidence.

[stompix]

I can honestly say that I've never typed the Bitcoin symbol in my entire life. If someone outside here sent it to me it might take me a few seconds to figure out what they're referring to.

Traitor! You infidel!!  

But seriously, I don't see people using it.
If it's the same as on Android, where you have to go to symbols, tap and hold on the $ and then select BTC it's a pain in the ass
I would type faster "bitcoin" than going through all of that.

It will really turn to a positive impact simply because some IOS user will notice the symbol of bitcoin and afterwards they tend to search it and they will try to buy bitcoin. So if they tend to buy bitcoin the demand on market will increase so the result is high price on market.

As I was saying above, you first need to find it.
But if you honestly think that somebody who has an iPhone and who has probably heard about BTC a thousand times before and decided not to buy, is going to do so now because of a fancy symbol on his keyboard you really need to get in touch with reality.

What do you get from adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

Nothing.

[el kaka22]

The addition of a bitcoin currency symbol clearly shows that Google does not turn a blind eye to the crypto world.
https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-currency-symbol-google/

Google has a significant effect on the cryptocurrency market.
Time will tell what the cascading effect of adding the bitcoin symbol is to the minds of everyday iOS users.
What do you get from adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

It is just creating awareness man, it can't hurt. I mean its not a huge deal, it would have been a big deal if it was 5 years ago, but right now whenever you ask someone if they know what "bitcoin is" they usually do, they are aware of its existence.
5 years ago when I first started to actually make some decent money thanks to bitcoin I wasn't really getting through to people, I was trying to tell them how I make my money and what bitcoin is and most of the time they didn't know what it was.

Today even elderly people (not like 80+ but more like 50+ types) now what bitcoin is. Hell my father who is 60 years old called me up about some news he found about bitcoin online. That's why the app icon is not really a huge deal but its always better to have that than not have it.

[kryptqnick]

What do you get from adding a bitcoin currency symbol to iOS?

Speculation?

I still don't get why Google add it to iOS but not Android. And this certainly brings nothing except maybe acceptance that Bitcoin is going more mainstream (people, in general, have heard or know about it).

Even if the only thing it brings is the recognition of Bitcoin becoming more popular, it's definitely not nothing. We all have been discussing cryptocurrencies for years, we remember a lot of ups and downs and various claims of people and companies. It seems like we are a big community, but there aren't even 100 million crypto users in the world. And many people who heard of it either know that it's the money of drug dealers or that it's a bubble/ponzi. The fact that reputable companies add the symbol of this currency proves that they don't think it's one of these. In this particular case the symbol is available along with thos of fiat currencies, which also means an important and not very common recognition of bitcoin as a currency rather that pseudo-security or commodity.

[Crypdon]

It means Google has recognised that bitcoin is not a passing fad that will go away, this baby is here to stay for the long run. I'm going almost all in with crypto, last chance before the train leaves