TL;DR

• The APhone is the latest ‘crypto smartphone’ to be announced — each one that comes to market puts just a liiittle more pressure on Apple and Android to adapt.

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Remember waaay back in the day when Uber only offered a black car service?

No? Well, before 2012AD, UberX didn’t exist.

The company held out on launching cheaper options for a hot minute — until the model was well and truly proven by Lyft, which forced Uber to adapt and compete.

We see the march towards crypto-integrated phones following a similar (slower) path…

There’s a new product launching, called the APhone, which follows the Solana Saga phone’s formula:

Put a dApp store on a smartphone → sell it to crypto nerds.

The model has only been proven to work at smaller scales so far, but with every new company that enters the market, it puts just a liiittle more pressure on Apple (iOS) and Google (Android) to adapt with the market.

(À la: UberX/Lyft).

We’re not about to go out and buy an APhone — and we expect there’s still a looong ways to go before we see any native crypto functionality added to iOS or Android.

But it’s a step in the right direction.

(And steps can eventually progress into leaps).