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What's the best way to make noise about this?

Sure, I can switch to Android but A) I don't really want to do that and B) losing a handful of Bitcoin enthusiasts to another platform is really not going to dent Apple in any way.

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Switch to Android and recommend other people to buy only Android phones from now on. Actively discourage people from buying iPhones. It will make a dent.

Sadly, Android is not secure enough for Bitcoin apps.

Arguably the same could (should?) be said about iOS.

What aspects of Android (or any OS, in general) make it unsafe for bitcoin use?

Android is the wild west compared to iOS

Bullshit.

The only rational response is to weigh the benefits of developing for and using the iOS ecosystem with your convictions about general purpose computing. If you don't think Apple shouldn't have this kind of power then don't use their products and don't support the Mac ecosystem.

Switch to Android. It will make a dent.

Bitcoin people are not a random demographic, they are early adopters, many are entrepreneurs, most are young.

I don't think Apple cares all that much about losing early adopters at this stage, and the number of folks willing to switch platform over Bitcoin wallet apps isn't going to be the slightest bit noticeable.

I'm no friend of Bitcoin, but won't disregarding early adopters lead them one step closer to becoming Microsoft?

They mention there were only 120K downloads. It may be true that bitcoin people are early adopters, but those early adopters aren't using wallets downloaded from the app store. For comparison December 2013 saw 3 billion total app downloads. Early adopters of iOS bitcoin wallet apps are a fraction of a fraction of a niche right now.

A) Bitcoin is not as big as you think, yet. 120K downloads is not that bad.

B) Since Apple is so hostile towards Bitcoin, many people have switched to better alternatives and simply don't care about Apple's private North Korea with an insane leader.

Any "dent" would be eclipsed by Apple running another TV ad in China or India.

I doubt they could care less.

It's not one dent that makes a difference. But a thousand little dents do make a difference.

Return your device. Say you bought for this and now it is useless. And maybe sue for punitive damages.

And then move to palm, windows, webos.. because moving to android will just make you do the same thing to google in a couple months.

Palm's gone, I'm not sure why you'd think Microsoft would be any different than Google/Apple regarding Bitcoin, and webOS was Palm's OS.

ironically, microsoft is less toxic nowadays than osx for software freedom.

With Android you don't need to rely on Google to install third party applications on your own hardware.

technically. but then, neither with ios. but its not whats being discussed.

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