Apple Forces Fancy to Remove Bitcoin Payments From its App
Pay with Bitcoin on iOS? Not anymore. By now everyone knows that Apple isn't too fond of Bitcoin. The company has removed every single Bitcoin wallet application from the iOS App Store, with Blockchain being the last one. The reason for Apple's anti-Bitcoin stance isn't entirely clear. It's possible that Apple doesn't want to deal with the legal issues of a currency whose regulatory status is unclear and inconsistent in most countries. For instance, when Coinbase was removed from the App Store, Apple's reasoning was that apps must "comply with all legal requirements in any location where....
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New York-based social e-commerce website Fancy has removed bitcoin payments from its iOS app at the request of Apple. The announcement was made in conjunction with its release of Version 3.3.0 of its iOS app on 5th March, and was visible under the "What's new" portion of the App Store where app updates are displayed. Fancy has been accepting bitcoin since 23rd January, when it revealed the news to customers via email, thereby becoming one of the largest and most well-funded merchants to accept bitcoin. The company announced that it would add a bitcoin payment option for both its Android....
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....
Apple should have embraced the misfits and the crazy ones. There is currently a video contest happening on Reddit, and the point of the contest is to remix Apple's old ad that talks about “misfits” being the ones who change the world in a Bitcoin vs Apple scenario. While Apple has always been a company known for “thinking different”, it seems that philosophy may have ended many years ago. In reality, Apple is a company creating closed-source applications and operating systems that give the user no control over their own devices. When it comes to Bitcoin, Apple has decided to remove all....
Australian bitcoin exchange CoinJar has for a while had their wallet application up-for-grabs on Apple's iOS App Store. Interestingly so, because most of its competitors' apps with similar (if not the same) functionality had already been removed for violating Apple's money-transmitting policy. But not CoinJar, their resilient little app became the lone soldier on a battleground. But no longer, it appears. CoinJar today announced their application will be pulled from the iOS App Store by the end of this week. Apple reportedly gave CoinJar an ultimatum: remove the receive and transmitting....
Fancy is an online store for some really...well..fancy and often hipster stuff. The site boasts a "crowd-curated catalog of amazing goods, wonderful places and innovative stores." For instance, you can buy this Salvador Dali Melting Wrist Watch at Fancy. Instant surrealism. No psychedelics required. And now, you can buy any item on the site with Bitcoin. CEO Joe Einhorn stated, "We are excited to play a small part in the next chapter for BitCoin, the one where people are able to exchange BitCoin for goods and services... Fancy has some of the coolest merchandise available for purchase with....