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EDIT:

Side by side image thanks to bitcoiner49er

https://i.imgur.com/bCYxmd0.jpg

Perhaps we should come up with an official hashtag for social networks?  #WelcomeAppleBTC

Nice one.

Seriously.  :)

Awesome! ;D

I wonder how much it would cost to publish something like this in the New York Times like Steve Jobs did years ago....

Maybe another electronic spot could be purchased on a high traffic website via crowd funding here.

I pledge BTC0.1 toward this. Just for the lulz. (I don't even care about apple as I have never used one)

This is just plain awesome!!  :D

what a great post, thanks

may i have your permission to use that?

Great! :)

I'd like to post this on another forum.

Seriously!

I'd double that, I am not one for organizing though.

Full page color advertisement will cost around $107,075.

Or you can go for a facing 1/2 page color advertisement. Costs $137,370.

F**k it, just post it on Reddit, more people will share and see it anyway. traditional newspapers suck....

The NY Times is having a daily circulation of some 2 million. Do you think that posting in Reddit can achieve similar figures?

Nope, but you don't need to pay $100,000 to post in Reddit...

Samsung will take care of those costs

NY Times would have a far greater impact than reddit. A post on reddit will never make national news, a NY times add could make every financial news show in the country.

If we could crowd source with confidence an ad like this to NY Time, i would be in for 1 BTC.

I guarantee you other crypto coin communities would make this happen.

I was kind of speaking in jest....

still spending $107,075 to maybe get 2 million hits on your advert, if people don't skip past it or posting it on reddit for free and possibly getting linked on other online platforms.

You pay for the $107,075 advert and i'll post it on reddit?

By the time you rasied the funds it would be old info and everyone would be bored of the spewed out memes that would follow the reddit campaign

edit: Also I wouldn't know where to buy the NY times without going to a local hotel or airport i don't think

awesome stuff. u dont need to publish it in any jurassic age paper, popularly known as news paper. upload it in a few free image hosting site and FB. give the image link in the forum and ask webmasters to share it on their websites and BTC enthusiasts to share on their social media handle. it'll reach so many people that no news paper on this earth will ever be able to reach.

Fuck Apple.  Spend your money elsewhere.  Simple.

I tell my friend, if you can't even choose to take the battery out of your phone..... whats the point?

I mostly agree with you. It could easly go viral.

But we also should notice that we are talking only about raw number of persons.
The "type" of persons reached could differ very much in these two strategies.
Which kind of target are we pointing to?

Love it. Someone else also posted this one:

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward.” – Apple, Inc.

Just take it to Twitter and FB. Numerous viral potential. Even people in your social circle who know nothing about Bitcoin will see this and take some time to learn about Bitcoin. What more we should expect?

That is an excellent idea. Revenge for Samsung, publicity for us.  ;D

No innovation, no balls, no vision, times have changed.... Steve who?

(I was never really a fan while he lived, but now I can see his value)

Looks like someone did.....

https://mobile.twitter.com/searchthedotcom

I like the idea behind it but the design could use a little work and fine tuning.

Are Bitcoin users paint users as well? Make us look good...

Apple needs to get out of their walled garden and see the sunlight for once.

much wow  :P

seriously: apple sucks!

Have at it!

I made it in haste with very little sleep.  If anyone has suggestions on to improve it word-wise please let me know.

I am trying to find the exact font as well as the original.

If it goes viral maybe. Post it on reddit and ask for donations to get a full page ad in the NYT haha.

Love it! I just combined both images into one for easy posting. Let's share it wherever we can  ;D

https://i.imgur.com/HPNYjm5.png

guys u do it all wrong. u shouldnt make apple get bitcoin.

u should drop apple so they get a lesson. theres enough android phones.

In an ideal world that would happen. I think recently I've seen more people ditching Apple and their products because of their restrictions as opposed to people blindly singing their praises, but then there's always Apple fanboys...

For whomever wants it:

http://www.suxorz.com/images/2014/02/06/dbDO5.jpg

Looks great side by side.

Also nice font, I like it.

Have a look at this one.

http://blog.blockchain.info/2014/02/06/blockchain-response-to-apple/

Thanks for sharing - I put these both up on Facebook. 

To another poster's point, the readership of twitter/reddit/facebook are quite different from those reading something like the NYTimes.  Not sure if we could rally the funds but it would make a very large impact on many people in a way that social media can't penetrate right now.

It seems the original font is a wider version of Times New Roman.

Now that is called " Thinking Different " and APPLE what you doin..?

To put it on their online and mobile app seems much more reasonable: http://nytmediakit.com/uploads/rates/12-2333_2013_Tech_RateC_IH3.pdf

So we need to have 10k donating $10? Seems feasible!! :D


OK, thinking about seriously working on this to start a crowd funding project! Shouldn't be too hard to raise attention(and also get new people involved). :)

Or just 10 donating $10K, not sure what is more feasible. :D

BTW, I can't see many valid reason to spent that bunch of money for just one printed page.
Probably if we think enought about it, we could either:
- to obtain about same results for free;
- to spend all that money for something more "epic".

We need someone to paste this at Apple's Headquarters.  All over it.

Bitcoin > Apple

:D.

you might have a type there with "years pasts"

Fixed in my side-by-side version. Different font also shows "evolution".

First thing that came to my head when I heard the news, is this ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA . Think Diffrent! Satoshi is one of the crazy ones. What happened to that apple? Without Steve the company is different.

I would like to thank Apple for narrowing my upgrade choice to two phones.

I've bought multiple of pretty much every Apple product. I've bought (sometimes multiple) every iPhone ever to come out.
I've written apps, 3 to be exact.

I'm done. I'm out. I'm going Android.

Might I suggest the Nexus Phone series.  I switched to android a few years back - started with the Galaxy S2 - then 3 then 4 and now am using the Nexus 5 and I can never see myself straying from any vanilla android phone.

The nexus is probably the best phone for developers, so yeah +1 to that idea. You could always put cyanogenmod on an S4 if you prefer the look of the handset etc but still want that vanilla feel + features.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm gonna go check them out tomorrow!

I was thinking of all the Apple products I've gotten in the past few years.
2 Mac Pros, 2 iMacs, 2 Macbook Pros, 3 MacBooks, a few Airport express, Airport extreme, Time Machine, 3 iPod touch, iPod, iPod Nano, one of each iPads, and every iPhone that has ever come out, as well as 2 more iPhone 3s, and 2 iPhone 5s.
That's a little too much. I need to rethink my life. Thank you Bitcoin for saving me from the iMonster!

Starting to go viral on twitter... Tim Cook tagged.

Posted it on Twitter. :)

https://twitter.com/ruchg1/status/431601023283507201/photo/1 (https://twitter.com/ruchg1/status/431601023283507201/photo/1)

Actually, they say that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Google "Apple bitcoin"
There are pages upon pages of hits. This just shows how far spread the acceptantce of bitcoin is and how big the bitcoin community has become.

It look like some angry teenagers are butt hurt...

 ::)

Coming from the person who's already made 10 similar posts in the various "Apple bans bitcoin" threads.  What are you afraid of?

LoL

I cannot stop to laugh at the delusional and misleading text the OP did in an attempt to copy the Apple's old advertisement.

Facts:

- No "cryptocurrency" revolution happened 5 years ago.
- Bitcoin do not put the "power of currency" back to people.
- Accepting Paypal or credit cards is not a skill.
- Satoshi Nakamoto's paper do not address any estimation...
- ...of 21 million people willing to buy 1 BTC to benefit speculators.
- Next year the Bitcoin user base will not increase exponentially...
- ...and that did not happened in the last years.
- The Bitcoin "community" could care less about competition...
- ...otherwise there would not be "altcoins".
- The only capital being enhanced is the capital of the speculators and early adopters.

I am not afraid of anything, but completely amused by a fanatical Bitcoin mob which thinks that Apple is conspiring against their imaginary revolution.

This, what the fuck is up with that?
I will never own an iphone, and the only apple product i have is a little nano ipod my mate took out the lost and found in the hotel he works at and gave to me  8) I wont pay for that overpriced shit

If Jobs was alive today, we wouldn't need to write that letter to him.

If he could come back from the dead and see iOS7 and the banning of Bitcoin, he would have fired the board of directors.  Again.

-B-

Guys here's apples CEO EMAIL tcook@apple.com PLEASE feel free to email and support blockchain:)
Here's my email to the CEO:)
""Hi, I've been a long time supporter of Apple, from the first iPhone :) I still have the first iphone lol :)  When people didn't believe in the iPhone I thought this people don't see where technology is going. I have always thought Apple was a supporter of future technology, bitcoin is the future and if you don't support the future and block any thing that's to do with Bitcoin your company will cease from being the number ONE innovative tech company in the world :) I love Apple but if your company Stops believing in the future (bitcoin) than I guess I will have to give up my iPhone for a Android phone or something:!) Please reconsider your decision concerning blockchain:!) ""
Thank you
Apple

tcook@apple.com

Sent from iPhone

Seems it's getting bigger and bigger:

Australian Retailer Millennius Halts iPhone Sales in Apple Boycott (http://www.coindesk.com/australian-retailer-millennius-halts-iphone-sales-apple-boycott/)

 :D

Seems like reddit has issues with it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x8abd/welcome_apple_seriously/

I just made a copy of the OP. Clearly it could use revising. Why does anyone think this is some final submission on it's way to the New York Times?  ::)

I don't think an exact copy (font, style, etc) conveys the point that bitcoin is "ahead" of Apple in term of innovation.

I absolutely agree with you.
The font you chose for the bitcoin version clearly indicate a sort of progress from the original one.
Also the colors: contrasty B/W for the original, some light orange, black and gray for the other.

Just a curiosity: in which year that apple advertise was launched?

EDIT:
I'm reading some comments on reddit. Some of their criticisms make sense to me.
Some word and/or period should be revised.