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Other wallet apps have been much more measured in their response to being removed from the store. Take the Coinjar folks response to Apple removing their app:

Other wallet apps have been much more measured in their response to being removed from the store. Take the Coinjar folks response to Apple removing their app: "Before you start DDOSing and trolling, Apple have done nothing wrong in this situation, they are just managing their own legal liability. We have had amicable discussions with them and hope they will support us in the future, when they have a more clear view of Bitcoin's place in their regulatory landscape." https://blog.coinjar.com/2014/01/09/coinjar-wallet-to-be-removed-from-app-store/ https://blog.coinjar.com/2014/01/09/coinjar-wallet-to-be-rem... A petition will be ineffective, especially against Apple. The best way to show Apple it's a problem is by no longer being a customer & switching to another device. (I'm a long time Apple fan/user, but I now use a Nexus 5 partly to have more control over the apps I can install / use.)

kyledrake 13y ago
Apple is the -first operating system in the world- that can control what you can and cannot install on the physical hardware device you own. You literally have no choice but to jailbreak your own phone, which in itself has questionable legal grounds. People doing the jailbreaking are being hunted down like criminals. Being measured is how we got here, now it's time to speak out. "The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." -Apple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA
- gibybo 13y ago
  Apple isn't an OS, so I assume you're talking about iOS. iOS is pretty far from the first OS to control what you can install on it. In fact it was one of the first phone OS's that let you install anything at all.
  - megaman821 13y ago
    ...unless you count a decade of Palm and Windows Mobile letting you install apps.
    - gibybo 13y ago
      I know, which is why I said one of the first rather than the first. Prior to iOS though, the vast majority of phones did not allow you to install apps. Palm and Windows Mobile had a very thin slice of the market.
smoyer 13y ago
But is CoinJar running a crowd-funding campaign? I don't think the solution to Apple banning bitcoin apps is to fund CoinPunk.

kyledrake 13y ago

Apple is the -first operating system in the world- that can control what you can and cannot install on the physical hardware device you own. You literally have no choice but to jailbreak your own phone, which in itself has questionable legal grounds. People doing the jailbreaking are being hunted down like criminals. Being measured is how we got here, now it's time to speak out. "The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." -Apple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA

gibybo 13y ago
Apple isn't an OS, so I assume you're talking about iOS. iOS is pretty far from the first OS to control what you can install on it. In fact it was one of the first phone OS's that let you install anything at all.
- megaman821 13y ago
  ...unless you count a decade of Palm and Windows Mobile letting you install apps.
  - gibybo 13y ago
    I know, which is why I said one of the first rather than the first. Prior to iOS though, the vast majority of phones did not allow you to install apps. Palm and Windows Mobile had a very thin slice of the market.

smoyer 13y ago

But is CoinJar running a crowd-funding campaign? I don't think the solution to Apple banning bitcoin apps is to fund CoinPunk.