Yesterday as part of the New York Times DealBook Summit, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company doesn’t have immediate plans for using cryptocurrencies for payments. However, he said, “there are other things we are definitely looking at.” But he wouldn’t be drawn on specifics.
What might that be? We decided to mix some educated guessing with a bit of speculation. Since its founding, Apple has targeted creatives with the original Mac adopted by design companies, while mainstream businesses used Windows.
And non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are most certainly a tool for creatives. So if Apple doesn’t have immediate plans for payments, NFTs must be the likely candidate. We came up with four speculative ideas. Firstly is the ability to have an NFT of an iTunes track.
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