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| Subject: LOL, Apple-Bitcoin spat sees fans ditching iPhones Sun Feb 09, 2014 11:54 pm | |
| Apple's decision to remove an app used to send and receive Bitcoins from its App Store prompted Barry Silbert to end a love affair with his iPhone.
"I'm switching," Silbert, chief executive officer of New York-based SecondMarket, said in an email after Apple last week removed his bitcoin application of choice, Blockchain.info. "Shopping for a new phone this weekend."
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, technology fans who used to see the Cupertino, California-based company as a kindred spirit are voicing their frustration over its policies. Apple requires apps to be legal everywhere they're offered, and some governments including China andIndia have questioned Bitcoin's legal status.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/applebitcoin-spat-sees-fans-ditching-iphones-20140210-32b4j.html#ixzz2stMPanSw |
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