Yeah, Bullshit. This is the problem with hacker news, you guys are driven by ideology (eg: hate Apple, love google) and are ignorant of technology so you make asinine statements like the above.
There's a warehouse full of patents difference between what AuthenTec used to sell (on a few phones that happened to run Android) and that TouchID became. For instance, lets start with the SecureEnclave which no Android phone has and if they did it would be less secure because there's no hardware division of google (Which means the keys were out of the makers control.)
What you are calling "pressure sensitivity" came out in the original iPhone in 2007. It's looking at deformation of the finger. 2007 isn't "years" after 2010.
I get it, you don't want to admit that Android is still a decade behind Apple, and is really just a creepy counterfeit of iOS, and so whenever Apple invents something you point to something vaguely similar that appeared in at least one Android that never shipped in any volume and was a total market failure, so you can pretend that Apple is behind the curve.
Your desperation is laughable, but your dishonesty shows you to be a person of low quality. Or you are a tech ignoramus.
Lets be generous and assume this site is staffed and moderated by ignoramuses.
The point is that your US Dollars, which are a trade medium, are increasing in purchasing power vs. electronics every year, yet people still buy electronics and computers.
So the claim that people won't spend a currency because they can hold onto it and buy more of that same good, is debunked by the success of electronics and particularly computers and smart phones.
The iPhone 7 is three times faster than the one 2 years ago. People have worked out that there's value in having the product even though a cheaper one will come in the future.
This is true when the rate of interest in the new currency exceeds the rate of inflation, but as the adoption starts reaching diminishing returns (you can't add %100 more users every year) this will diminish and it will just be a currency.
Bitcoin is like the internet-- for many years it wasn't really known or understood by the general population. A look at mainstream impressions and articles about it seems to indicate this is still the case.
I've never seen a convincing argument that the low rate of inflation (bitcoin isn't deflationary, just fixed ultimate supply) is a problem.
Personally, I have spent a fair bit of my bitcoin buying things on purse.io.
Whoa, Monero is weak, while Z.cash has a top flight team. This isn't the poloniex trollbox. No need to talk up your investment. All of the HN crowd are quite capable of seeing the team at https://z.cash/team.html
Are Vitalik and Gavin Anderson "Scam developers"? Matthew Green? Is he a "scam cryptographer"?
This is not pre-mined. They get a cut of the mining rewards for the first four years. This is a big improvement over the common practice of having ICOs. In an ICO the developers get bitcoin, and don't even have to make their coin a success. With Z.cash the development team has an incentive to make their coin worth something.
Further, I'll take a serious development effort like Zcash over almost all the alt coins. Having worked in this space, there are maybe 5-6 realy teams-- Bitcoin core, Ethereum, Synereo, MaidSafe, Factom and Z.cash. All of those are professional teams focusing on differentiating features. None of them are just clones of something else.
Not all altcoins are created equal and to compare this to coins that are weekend efforts isn't very fair.
But then, one of the great things about the original bitcoin is people underestimated it for years.
There are several, there's Lisk and Expanse and at least one other that's probably more significant than those two but whose name escapes me for the moment.
Note all of them are also doing work to improve on ethereum.
While there was an age where people would just fork a codebase and try to hype up a coin (doge is the biggest example) nowadays if you want to capture any value, you have to actually add functionality or differentiating features.
Seriously. You didn't learn the lesson the iPhone taught the world a decade ago?
Also you you obviously don't understand the difference in CPU and GPU capabilities between the Air and the Pro.
So you're just ignorant of technology, aren't you?