总部位于加州库比蒂诺的计算巨头苹果公司已经发布了政策更新消息,其应用商店审查指南暗示，他们可能对比特币打开大门，改变其对比特币和其他数字货币长期的限制性政策。
消息发布在全球开发者大会（WWDC 2014年） ，也就是苹果开发者年度大会上，预计会为公司客户和广大商业界社区发布令人注目的公告。
更新部分在“采购和货币”部分的内容如下：
“应用程序可以方便的传输认可的虚拟货币，只要这样做符合州和联邦法律，应用程序的功能是在认可虚拟货币的领土内使用。 ”
作为一家公司，苹果公司是出了名的对未来发展守口如瓶，此次该政策的变动，可能是针对苹果尚未揭露的产品。
评论：利好消息，苹果的开放无疑对比特币应用的推动作用较大
Cupertino, California-based computing giant Apple has released an update to its App Store Review Guidelines that potentially opens the doors for a change in its long-restrictive policies against bitcoin and other digital currencies.
The release follows Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC 2014), an annual meetup of Apple developers that was expected to bring notable announcements for the company’s customers and wider business community.
The update, made under the document’s ‘purchasing and currencies‘ section, reads:
“Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies provided that they do so in compliance with all state and federal laws for the territories in which the app functions.”
Anti-bitcoin policies
Apple garnered the ire of the wider bitcoin community late last year when the company began abruptly pulling major bitcoin wallet apps — such as Coinbase and Blockchain — from its app store.
The resulting embargo of any apps that allow for the transmission of bitcoins has been widely acknowledged by the bitcoin community as having a negative impact on adoption.
Anti-Apple backlash perhaps hit a tipping point this February, when bitcoin’s fervent reddit community began publicly destroying Apple devices in a video campaign designed to bring awareness to the Apple’s actions.
Creative solutions
Of course, in recent months bitcoin entrepreneurs and developers have simply become more covert in their use of Apple’s own policies in order to bring bitcoin-based services to the platform.
Bity and Cycle of Goodness (CoG) both launched wallets in the wake of Apple’s Blockchain ban to wide enthusiasm in the community, while browser-based alternatives have provided alternative relief.
Most recently, Pheeva was about to offer its bitcoin wallet to iOS users by registering as a cooperative, meaning prospective users must first enroll in the company’s community online before download.
Uncertainty lingers
While the cause of much enthusiasm from the community, ultimately more guidance may be required to determine whether or not bitcoin itself is an “approved” digital currency.
As a company, Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about future development, and may have an as-yet-unrevealed product which applies to the policy change.
CoinDesk is still monitoring this developing story.
From: CoinDesk
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