Plea for Devs to remove Mac clients

[glerant]

Given Apple's rabid and oppressive stance towards Bitcoin - why do Bitcoin developers persist in offering Mac wallet clients?

http://www.leadcoin.net/downloads/

Proud not to include a Mac client.

Come on Devs - let's not support those who bully us!

[raskul]

what a stupid idea. basically you are alienating people who use mac computers. That's not a protest against Apple, that's just alienation of part of the community.

[JoelKatz]

Apple makes it hard for people who own their products to use Bitcoin, so in response the community should do precisely the same thing?

[raskul]

Apple makes it hard for people who own their products to use Bitcoin, so in response the community should do precisely the same thing?

^^this.


what you should actually be doing is building MORE mac-compatible crypto software. That would, in essence, be more of a protest.

[thecarnie]

Apple makes it hard for people who own their products to use Bitcoin, so in response the community should do precisely the same thing?

^^this.


what you should actually be doing is building MORE mac-compatible crypto software. That would, in essence, be more of a protest.

Agreed -- it would seem the only way to beat 'the corporations' is to push and pressure and beat them into submission - basically when there is enough bad press, they will cave in.  What you need is a Coin Wallet Army to submit the apps, and when they're denied, hit the press - citing the same allegations that Blockchain.info and others have claimed - unfair practices.  Eventually the backlash will haunt them into submission...

[franky1]

Given Apple's rabid and oppressive stance towards Bitcoin - why do Bitcoin developers persist in offering Mac wallet clients?

http://www.leadcoin.net/downloads/

Proud not to include a Mac client.

Come on Devs - let's not support those who bully us!

please notice that alt coin creators are not developers. they are 'cloners'

its much the same as calling a script kiddie, an elite hacker.

just because they are provided with a script and they maybe tweak 1% of it, doesnt make them talented

[w1R903]

please notice that alt coin creators are not developers. they are 'cloners'

its much the same as calling a script kiddie, an elite hacker.

just because they are provided with a script and they maybe tweak 1% of it, doesnt make them talented

I agree with this sentiment overall.  However, please note that the Litecoin and Peercoin/Primecoin core devs are in fact quite skilled*.  All of them are far better developers than I am, and I'm not a bad developer.  Also, at least one of the Litecoin devs participates actively in Bitcoin development (Warren Togami, who is also the founder of Fedora and creator of Spamassassin).

*There may be other skilled alt coin devs, these are just the ones I'm familiar with.

[glerant]

Better idea, why don't you stop posting this stupid shit across several boards?


~BCX~

You don't have to read the stupid shit! 

[amspir]

Given Apple's rabid and oppressive stance towards Bitcoin - why do Bitcoin developers persist in offering Mac wallet clients?

http://www.leadcoin.net/downloads/

Proud not to include a Mac client.

Come on Devs - let's not support those who bully us!

I believe that would be the objective of anti-Bitcoin forces at Apple.   Establishing and growing a base of Bitcoin software on OSX would put public pressure on Apple to open iOS to Bitcoin.   Removing that base eases the pressure.

[ladycor]

So, hinder the success of bitcoin by being exclusive instead of inclusive?