Millennius Stops All Sales Of iPhones To Protest Apple's Removal Of Blockchain.info's iOS App: Hopes Overstock Will Follow Suit
Paul Vigna of WSJ's new Bitbeat recently published an article detailing how Bitcoiners are not happy about Apple's removal of Blockchain's iOS app. One redditor even shot his iPhone in a show to protest Apple. Millennius drops Apple iPhones. Here at CCN, we recently published Millennius' last 6 months worth of Bitcoin data from their longtime acceptance and promotion of Bitcoin in Australia. Millennius has now been recognized by the Bitcoin community for their acceptance of Bitcoin in a big way and they are repaying the support to the Bitcoin community at large. Millennius, like the man in....
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Leading Australian e-tailer Millennius has stopped selling iPhones to protest against Apple's decision to remove the blockchain.info app from its app store. Millennius is a key proponent of bitcoin, and has called for wider deployment of the currency in the past. The company argues that bitcoin could lower prices online as payments are cheaper than traditional credit card payments and these savings could be passed down to consumers. Betraying ideals. The blockchain.info app was the only bitcoin-related app in Apple's walled garden of delights, and it had more than 120,000 users. The....
The remains of a destroyed iPhone 4S. Just yesterday, Apple pulled Blockchain.info's wallet app from the App Store without any clear reason. This was the last remaining wallet app on the App Store, and its removal annoyed quite a lot of Apple users. Some expressed mild to moderate disapproval over twitter. Apple not interested in #bitcoin: http://t.co/pOtis3KWLa They just want your dollars, I guess. - munin (@munin) February 6, 2014. Others however, seem to be so utterly pissed off that they've smashed their iPhones in protest. Reddit user “round-peg” posted on r/bitcoin that for every 100....
Back in late January, social sharing e-commercial platform Fancy.com included the option to pay for products in bitcoin. That capability carried over to the company's mobile application - but as of today, the pay-in-bitcoin feature in Fancy's iOS app is no longer available. In version 3.3.0 of the app, released March 5th, the change-log says: "Removed Bitcoin per Apple's request". Certainly interesting, but surprising? Not in the least. Cupertino-based Apple has started an all-out offensive against any applications that allow bitcoin payments (informational apps, on the other hand, are....
This is an interesting phenomenon (actually, it's hilarious). With news that Apple removed the Blockchain.info app from their App Store on Wednesday, bitcoin users who also happen to use the company's products are taking their anger out on their iOS devices. A user on Reddit called "round-peg" said that for every upvotes his post received, any person smashing their iPhone on video would be gifted a Nexus 5 Android mobile phone. The conditions? Only 5 Nexus devices would be given away, and the poster wrote that "Your reason should include the fact that Apple is anti-Bitcoin, not just....
It was just yesterday we posted about Blockchain.info and their now 1.9 million MyWallet users (embarrassingly enough my original headline read '1.9 users' leading to a bit of confusion). At the end of that article, I mentioned that the Blockchain.info app had made a surprise and unintentional appearance on the App Store, before quickly being pulled (for those that did download it, they received the old version of the app). Today, Blockchain.info has announced that their app is officially now back on the App Store. The previous version of the application was removed by Apple earlier this....