Apple Should Not Impede New Technology like Bitcoin
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Posted in : Bitcoin:
- On : Jun 02, 2014
It has has been reported that today Apple will announce a new OS.
So today is the unofficial Apple Bitcoin Campaign Day.
A company who built it’s name on being innovative, bucking the trend and fostering an image of being anti-establishment should not stand in the way of a new technology that some of our best and brightest say is the wave of the future.
Apple, unceremoniously and with insufficient explanation, banned all Bitcoin wallets and related Apps from their App Store. At best this is poor communications and strategy at worst it is anti-competitive. Many of us who are Apple fans expect better.
This is their right and we would not support anti-trust or other government action to stop them. Let free markets be free. Part of this also allows the freedom for people to ask for improvement, support competitors and spread the word about a company’s practices.
Let’s show Apple what a decentralized system and community can do.
Right now, reach out to every news media you can, share this or other articles on social media, write letters to the CEO and other executives, flood their LinkedIn, Twitter and social media pages and tell them it will help their business to be more progressive. If this doesn’t work, sell your Apple stock and tell shareholder relations that you did so because you felt they are no longer embracing new technologies. Buy a Samsung or Windows phone or new Surface Pad and tweet to Apple when you have done so. Make it so no responsible reporter can cover the new OS without also asking why once rebel Apple has become the antithesis.
Apple, even those who don’t care about Bitcoin don’t think that an anti-competitive practice of discriminating against an exciting new technology fits your brand. We in the Bitcoin community care even more. We want you to be a part of this exciting movement. If not then we will encourage you to please be more supportive of new technology and ideas. Until then we can hopefully create a tiny bit of incentive.
