Saturday, February 8, 2014

Apple removed from the App Store application Blockchain - last available on iOS Bitcoin-client

Apple has removed from the App Store application Blockchain. It was the last one available on the iOS platform application to work with kriptovalyutoy Bitcoin.

As the developers Blockchain, Apple did not provide details about the removal of the application is limited only by the phrase about " unresolved issue." 


Blockchain app was available in the App Store for two years . For all time of its existence it has been downloaded by users iOS- devices more than 120 thousand times .

Developers have criticized Apple for removing the application . They said that by doing so the company has once again demonstrated the capricious and anti-competitive nature of politics App Store. She allegedly focused on maintaining monopoly Apple in making payments and completely ignores the interests and desires of the users. Removing application Blockchain, the company used its monopoly position in the market and eliminated competing solutions , developers said in a blog post .

The service has already been created change.org petition calling for Apple to return the application to work with the store Bitcoin App Store. It says that users need Bitcoin- customers . If Apple does not agree to provide it , the signatories intend to move to Android. At the time of this writing, the petition was signed by almost five thousand people .

Note , this is not the first time that Apple removes from its application store for e- currency Bitcoin. Earlier, a similar fate befell customers Coinbase, BitPak and CoinJar. Users yet remain accessible and application Coinbits Bitcoin Tracker. But they are intended only for the cost of monitoring and Bitcoin can not be used to transfer funds .

iphones.ru

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