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After banning blockchain app from the store, I will bann all Apple products for ever. Sad though, I was happy with Apple since my first iPhone 3s.
Well, Apple made his choice and so did I - NEVER AGAIN ANY APPLE PRODUCT. POINT!

How do you think guys?

I've done basically the same thing, but started a couple years ago. No apple crap for me or my kids.

It seems very likely now that Apple is getting ready to make a power play in mobile payments.  All the pieces are lined up - credit card accounts, Passbook, iBeacons and TouchID.   It only needs the switch pulling and the marketing machine starts rolling.  Bitcoin just represents a small fly that they are swatting away to prevent confusion.  

Apple's payment system will put ease of use right at its heart.  No need to scan QR codes, bonk your phone on a sensor, type anything in, sign your name or do anything other than use your fingerprint to pay for your products.  As an added advantage stores can track your movements and offer you a discount as you pass by the tins of beans.

Everyday practically there is a new entrant into the mobile payment space.  This morning in the UK, Mastercard launched Weve which is just one of many badly named mobile payment apps which stand no hope of gaining public acceptance.  In my opinion, instead of chasing retail, bitcoin and other coins should seek to do the things that Apple, Visa, Mastercard and Paypal can't do.

Bitcoins are not about retail.

Bitcoins are freedom! Transfer money from one to antoher without anyone in the middle. Apple and Co have no chance to compete against this.

A woman in Africa can receive money within a few minutes from all over the world without having bank account, credit card or any Apple approved shit. This all without paying high fees.

Bitcoin means freedom and safety for your wealth. I will accept Bitcoins with my companies within coming 8 weeks and even will prefer Bitcoin payment, which means all payments made with Bitcoins will have a good discount. Please understand that I can't promote or name here my companies.

Long Live Bitcoin!

i wonder if and could imagine that steve jobs would have invented the iCoin ;D i mean thats apple, take something what is already there and make it bit more userfriendly and add some design... then act like you have invented the wheel...

anyway good decision to ban apple products. i find it annoying that they do special cables and special software like itunes and try to force you to use only apple products.

The only Apple product I own is a battered iPhone 3 which is probably on its way out. I'd like to get away from Apple on my next phone though for various reasons.

Ubuntu apparently has a operating system coming out. I'd be interested in that as an option over android or ios etc.

The only apple device I have is an iPad and its my kids toy.  Thats how I see apple stuff these days.  In my opinion Samsung makes far superior products.

Yeah, does seem to be a long time coming. I'm hoping it doesn’t disappoint. Are they actually bringing out a phone or just an operating system?

TLDR

I just signed the petition "Apple: Allow Bitcoin wallets on the iPhone" on Change.org.

It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link:

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/apple-allow-bitcoin-wallets-on-the-iphone?share_id=jsFsYcfbZb&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

Signed.

Just my 2 cents about Apple and how the NSA internally labels Apple customers :

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-09/nsa-mocks-apples-zombie-customers-asks-your-target-using-blackberry-now-what (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-09/nsa-mocks-apples-zombie-customers-asks-your-target-using-blackberry-now-what)
(article and follow-ups have more interesting infos for those that don't know yet)

Signed

Do you think Apple will respond to such petitions? The best way to vote or protest Apple is with your money. Dump their devices and they'll soon get the message.

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

Load linux on a macbook pro :)

Macbook already replaced with Pixel Chromebook.
iPhone already replaced with Android phone.
Next week I'm dumping the iPad and replacing it with a Nexus 7.

Apple, it's been nice.  But now you are mean and I don't want to be your friend any more.

I've banned apple since 13 years ago, the first time I use their product I immediately noticed their centralized control of almost every degree of freedom in user space, check this chart  :D

http://xaharts.org/funny/i/mac_win_linux_perceptions-s.jpg

sell me your ipad - I'll pay .125 BTC for it  :)

Good riddance Rotten Apple.....
over priced, over hyped and rolling down....

Signed..! Apple guys turned off there brains they are not ready to accept the fact that one can send money from one place to other without any fee or using any of there fishy services..!

Apple is out for me too - they won't be getting my annual £1k

Signed.

https://blockchain.info/nl/wallet/iphone-app

check the cydia app, jailbreak ftw :)

What's the best site to use to jailbreak? Last time I checked my iphone 3 couldn't be broken, but I have the BC app already.

Wow Nice Shot ...

R3 Destroys anti bitcoin iPhone with a rifle in exchange for a Nexus 5
http://youtu.be/DuQZTAJ2KLk

http://newsbtc.com/2014/02/06/watch-bitcoin-users-destroy-iphones-protest-apple-removing-blockchain-app/

some donation on the way ...  ;D

Sure I Agree, but we also need to take on account the marketing strategy ... his video already get 35.000 hits  in 24 hours ...  I've got some relatives working in marketing business and yep, sometimes its not easy to measure a marketing campaigns ROI. But I really like those spontaneous costumers manifestations, its very powerful ...

i can still access, send and recieve coin with my online wallet using my iPhone and its built in web browser. i don't get the fuss.

I completely forgot you could do that lol. So is there some other less suspicious / more honest reason why apple took down the app?

Wow.  I guess the unclear regulatory environment is taking it's toll even on some of the more innovative companies.  I suspect one of two things is going to happen this year:

1.) Apple will pull it's head out of it's keister and fully embrace BTC by the end of the year.
2.) Barring #1, more and more people will be smashing their iphones and apple ends up losing significant market share this year.

*putting away tin-foil hat

I really dislike Apple. But because they sell old  hardware at ridiculous prices.

I have disliked Apple since long before Bitcoin existed because their business model for IOS is based upon the use of DRM for censorship and repression. The net result is that Apple uses the power of the marketplace to promote oppression and servitude, in many was far worse that many oppressive states. One must keep in mind here that the "pen" (The 21st century equivalent requires having control over one's computing) is mightier than the sword (The 21st century equivalent is guns, military power, nukes, chemical weapons etc.). The Bitcoin community is by no means the first to have been the target of Apple's oppression; however what is really gratifying here is that this community is actually doing something about it.

Smart people look for loopholes, and ways around it. This being one of them. Well done Blockchain, though, I have the blockchain app on my iPhone 5, and iPad Air =P

After Steve Jobs died, Apple is going to shit.
Alot of people Still have Iphones, Ipads where I live, so Apple is not down yet.
Apple just puts to much restrictions on there products, you can jailbreak tho.
But I still prefer android, Especially after this.