Australian Retailer Millennius Halts iPhone Sales in Apple Boycott
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....
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