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My first stab at an Ethereum wallet was in 2014. I collaborated with Gavin Wood and Alex Van Der Sande to imagine what a dapp browser, dapp store, network monitor, and wallet might look like.https://dribbble.com/shots/2175361-Ethereum-App-StoreIn 2017 I pivoted my little company, Balance, from fintech back to Ethereum when I watched $ETH increased 1000x in value. We focused on the wallet problem again and made huge progress. Balance pushed out beautiful web interfaces, the WalletConnect stand...
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We are working incredibly hard to bring you a wonderful Ethereum wallet for iPhone. Personally, I have been deeply involved in the Apple Developer Community for around 10 years and the Ethereum Community for 5 years. I really care about the overlap between the Apple and Ethereum ecosystem. There is a magical product lurking in the future: iOS (iPhone Operating System) : EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) Swift programming language : Solidity programming language Apple cares about privacy : Ethere...
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Computing comes in waves. Each new technological breakthrough is a combination of the personal, electrical, mechanical, physical & material. Human neurons fire so that silicon circuits can twitch to life. Our biological brains create technological tools. We augment ourselves with our devices.Imagine what he imaginedThe impact of these tools keeps expanding. These technological tools have always had political power:International Business Machines helped the Nazis keep record of who to incinera...
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ric.eth mirrorWhy Wallets Excite Me Again
My first stab at an Ethereum wallet was in 2014. I collaborated with Gavin Wood and Alex Van Der Sande to imagine what a dapp browser, dapp store, network monitor, and wallet might look like.https://dribbble.com/shots/2175361-Ethereum-App-StoreIn 2017 I pivoted my little company, Balance, from fintech back to Ethereum when I watched $ETH increased 1000x in value. We focused on the wallet problem again and made huge progress. Balance pushed out beautiful web interfaces, the WalletConnect stand...
ric.eth mirrorBalance App Icon Sale
We are working incredibly hard to bring you a wonderful Ethereum wallet for iPhone. Personally, I have been deeply involved in the Apple Developer Community for around 10 years and the Ethereum Community for 5 years. I really care about the overlap between the Apple and Ethereum ecosystem. There is a magical product lurking in the future: iOS (iPhone Operating System) : EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) Swift programming language : Solidity programming language Apple cares about privacy : Ethere...
ric.eth mirrorPolitical Computing 🗳
Computing comes in waves. Each new technological breakthrough is a combination of the personal, electrical, mechanical, physical & material. Human neurons fire so that silicon circuits can twitch to life. Our biological brains create technological tools. We augment ourselves with our devices.Imagine what he imaginedThe impact of these tools keeps expanding. These technological tools have always had political power:International Business Machines helped the Nazis keep record of who to incinera...
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If you want to use the most interesting parts of Ethereum today, you need a desktop computer. Dapps are crafted to work on large screens, they are tailored to browsers that are fast on fast computers, and they almost all have blocks on certain screen sizes.
This has to change.
Dapps are bound to the desktop and most of the world does not own a desktop computer. Their primary personal computer is their phone.
Whenever a new Ethereum service is created, I try using it with JankyMask. JankyMask is a fork of Metamask from Dimitar Nestorov that works on Safari for iOS:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/ORBbu7oy
When it works, it is absolutely magical ✨ You can slide your wallet over the top of your browser and use the most incredible dapps right from your phone.
https://twitter.com/ricburton/status/1447445762153975820
When it breaks, it is usually because the developer has blocked Safari or small screen sizes for no good reason at all.
Safari is the only web browser that does not have a bad incentive model:
Chrome helps Google serve Ads
Internet Explorer is a history lesson
Brave has a $BAT-shit crazy token
Firebox begs Google for money
By contrast, Safari has one goal: make the iPhone’s battery life last longer while never compromising on security—that is it.
Apple cares about people. People buy Apple products for the best experience. They invest in Safari to make sure the mobile web remains fast, open and fair. Products like Ad Blocking, Hidden Email and Tracking Blockers have laid waste to mobile advertising networks.
Features like Privacy Report prove that Apple cares about people being able to try and browse anonymously, even if it is hard to pull off. They have first class support for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) which help people evade Internet Service Provider’s (ISPs) censorship.
Safari iOS Extensions was the missing piece of the puzzle—literally 🧩—and the Ethereum community should embrace it. It proves that Apple is open to developers who wish to fuse the benefits of native apps with the openness of the web.
https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/metamask
MetaMask is wedded to Chrome for very good reasons. Chrome is the number one desktop browser and has successfully crushed its competition. It is the dominant browser for the Android ecosystem. It captures a huge part of the desktop and mobile web. It makes sense that Metamask would become so dominant on the desktop but face much more competition on mobile.
Everyone was busy shoving dapp browsers inside wallets. Now we can place wallets inside browsers.
Chrome does not capture the majority of mobile spending dollars, Safari does.
https://twitter.com/asymco/status/959876980048089088
The people that choose Android phones generally have less money to spend. Safari is where people who have money go to use it. As KaL Michael, a longtime Apple ecosystem designer puts it:
“Apple makes great products. That’s it.
Great products aren’t cheap and cheap products aren’t great.”
Android took an open source and broad standards approach. Apple focused on making the best possible product. The Android community generally follows the Apple community’s lead. If we can bring innovations to Apple’s ecosystem that are successful, Android-focused teams will soon copy them for the benefit of all.
America is not the world, but it does shape a lot of it. Americans are mostly on Apple:
https://www.applemust.com/almost-60-of-us-smartphone-users-may-soon-be-on-iphone/
Google created Chrome to serve people more adverts. That is their incentive.
The greatest Apple data commentator, Horace Dediu, recently released this post:
http://www.asymco.com/2021/09/21/the-most-important-iphone-ever/
It includes this bombshell of a graph:
He makes a few incredible observations about why this is the case:
The new cameras are for the new generation of YouTube, Instagram and TikTok influencers. Ordinary people with extraordinary tools can do extraordinary work.
This is Apple’s compounding advantage: Apple creates tools for creators
The iPhone is doing better than ever.
There are more than 1 billion iPhone users. The total number of users has been rising steadily. iPhone users make up about 26% of all smartphone users (3.8 billion is the current estimate). The share of users in the US is about 60% (or soon will be.) The share in UK is close to 50%. All these share numbers are higher than ever. Over 14% of US and 10% of UK survey respondents have switched to an iPhone in the past two years. The following graph shows how churn is boosting iPhone market share in terms of users.
This is one of the many reasons the Ethereum community should start paying more attention to Safari.
We have been working on Safari Wallet for the last 10 weeks and have made enormous progress. You can check out the project at: SafariWallet.org
iOS Safari Extensions are the missing piece of the puzzle. We can now mix Apple’s iPhone & Ethereum’s protocol together in a beautiful and simple way.
I believe we are at the start of a very interesting journey to bring Apple and Ethereum closer together. If you are interested in helping us, please check out the GitHub project:
If you want to use the most interesting parts of Ethereum today, you need a desktop computer. Dapps are crafted to work on large screens, they are tailored to browsers that are fast on fast computers, and they almost all have blocks on certain screen sizes.
This has to change.
Dapps are bound to the desktop and most of the world does not own a desktop computer. Their primary personal computer is their phone.
Whenever a new Ethereum service is created, I try using it with JankyMask. JankyMask is a fork of Metamask from Dimitar Nestorov that works on Safari for iOS:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/ORBbu7oy
When it works, it is absolutely magical ✨ You can slide your wallet over the top of your browser and use the most incredible dapps right from your phone.
https://twitter.com/ricburton/status/1447445762153975820
When it breaks, it is usually because the developer has blocked Safari or small screen sizes for no good reason at all.
Safari is the only web browser that does not have a bad incentive model:
Chrome helps Google serve Ads
Internet Explorer is a history lesson
Brave has a $BAT-shit crazy token
Firebox begs Google for money
By contrast, Safari has one goal: make the iPhone’s battery life last longer while never compromising on security—that is it.
Apple cares about people. People buy Apple products for the best experience. They invest in Safari to make sure the mobile web remains fast, open and fair. Products like Ad Blocking, Hidden Email and Tracking Blockers have laid waste to mobile advertising networks.
Features like Privacy Report prove that Apple cares about people being able to try and browse anonymously, even if it is hard to pull off. They have first class support for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) which help people evade Internet Service Provider’s (ISPs) censorship.
Safari iOS Extensions was the missing piece of the puzzle—literally 🧩—and the Ethereum community should embrace it. It proves that Apple is open to developers who wish to fuse the benefits of native apps with the openness of the web.
https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/metamask
MetaMask is wedded to Chrome for very good reasons. Chrome is the number one desktop browser and has successfully crushed its competition. It is the dominant browser for the Android ecosystem. It captures a huge part of the desktop and mobile web. It makes sense that Metamask would become so dominant on the desktop but face much more competition on mobile.
Everyone was busy shoving dapp browsers inside wallets. Now we can place wallets inside browsers.
Chrome does not capture the majority of mobile spending dollars, Safari does.
https://twitter.com/asymco/status/959876980048089088
The people that choose Android phones generally have less money to spend. Safari is where people who have money go to use it. As KaL Michael, a longtime Apple ecosystem designer puts it:
“Apple makes great products. That’s it.
Great products aren’t cheap and cheap products aren’t great.”
Android took an open source and broad standards approach. Apple focused on making the best possible product. The Android community generally follows the Apple community’s lead. If we can bring innovations to Apple’s ecosystem that are successful, Android-focused teams will soon copy them for the benefit of all.
America is not the world, but it does shape a lot of it. Americans are mostly on Apple:
https://www.applemust.com/almost-60-of-us-smartphone-users-may-soon-be-on-iphone/
Google created Chrome to serve people more adverts. That is their incentive.
The greatest Apple data commentator, Horace Dediu, recently released this post:
http://www.asymco.com/2021/09/21/the-most-important-iphone-ever/
It includes this bombshell of a graph:
He makes a few incredible observations about why this is the case:
The new cameras are for the new generation of YouTube, Instagram and TikTok influencers. Ordinary people with extraordinary tools can do extraordinary work.
This is Apple’s compounding advantage: Apple creates tools for creators
The iPhone is doing better than ever.
There are more than 1 billion iPhone users. The total number of users has been rising steadily. iPhone users make up about 26% of all smartphone users (3.8 billion is the current estimate). The share of users in the US is about 60% (or soon will be.) The share in UK is close to 50%. All these share numbers are higher than ever. Over 14% of US and 10% of UK survey respondents have switched to an iPhone in the past two years. The following graph shows how churn is boosting iPhone market share in terms of users.
This is one of the many reasons the Ethereum community should start paying more attention to Safari.
We have been working on Safari Wallet for the last 10 weeks and have made enormous progress. You can check out the project at: SafariWallet.org
iOS Safari Extensions are the missing piece of the puzzle. We can now mix Apple’s iPhone & Ethereum’s protocol together in a beautiful and simple way.
I believe we are at the start of a very interesting journey to bring Apple and Ethereum closer together. If you are interested in helping us, please check out the GitHub project:
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