Apple unleashed a well deserved firestorm in the Bitcoin community with its decision to suddenly ban the extremely popular Blockchain app. This app was the last remaining user friendly way to facilitate Bitcoin transactions on iPhones and it had been downloaded 120,000 times. Apple has remained completely silent on its reasons for removing the app, further infuriating the BTC community. Apple hasn’t done a single decent thing since Steve Jobs died.
The reaction to this has been nothing short of hilarious. As Wired reports:
Apple banned the popular Blockchain wallet yesterday, and the protest started very early this morning when, on the popular discussion site reddit, someone named “round-peg” promised to hand out Nexus 5 phones to people who posted videos of themselves smashing working iPhones — one phone for every 100 up-votes on the site. The post was quickly up-voted to the front of reddit, and then removed, apparently for violating reddit’s policy, which prohibits reddit vote manipulation.
Some of these videos are priceless. My personal favorite is the guy who destroys his iPhone with a sniper rifle. Nice shot brother!
Destroying an iPhone with a Rifle
Destroying an iPhone with a Machete
Destroying an iPhone with a Steel Pipe
Ever wonder how a gigantic company with huge share destroys itself? You’re watching it in real time.
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Michael Krieger
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Bitcoin vs. Apple: Videos of Users Destroying Their iPhones Proliferate on YouTube originally appeared on A Lightning War for Liberty on February 7, 2014.
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