How to Retaliate Against Apple's Anti-Bitcoin Stance, The Socially Acceptable Edition
Look, folks. We get it. The lot of you are absolutely annoyed that Apple has killed off the Blockchain.info application from the App Store. It's an overall crummy situation. And with users retaliating by smashing, stabbing, and even shooting their iPhones - we come to you with three simple steps to tell Apple where to go in a socially acceptable fashion. Sell your iPhone, don't smash it, toss it, launch it into space, or throw it at somebody. Seriously, this doesn't really do anything aside from make you seem crazy. Something tells us Tim Cook isn't hanging out on YouTube and shedding....
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