Duh. It's a way of purchasing things outside of Apple's store. They can't get their 30%, so they won't allow it.<p>Edit: seriously, that's an incredibly solid reason why they wouldn't accept it. I considered making one briefly until I realized this. I'm not even remotely surprised this happened.
Gavin Andresen of Bitcoin will be live on This Week in Startups this Tuesday at 1:00pm PDT talking more about these challenges and benefits of Bitcoin if anyone is interested.
Trying to release a Bitcoin app on Apple's app store may preclude cautionary tales of how not to get noticed. Bringing something like this into the mainstream could otherwise be hazardous to a protocol and community that are just beginning to bloom. Perhaps this mobile market isn't ready for such a powerful application.
This really should not be a surprise to anyone. If Bitcoin is not already illegal (and I have reason to believe it is due to most states' money transmitter laws), it's almost guaranteed that it will be soon.
This is why having just one app store sucks, and I'm not just referring to Apple here. It could've been Google or Microsoft, too (MS intends to have one in win8 too). But why should any of them be the moral police for everything?<p>I was thinking of Mondonet and mesh networks today. What if they could reject such mesh network apps from their stores because the Government asked them behind the scenes to do so? That wouln't be very good for us.
Apple pisses me off for real. Google should see this as an opportunity to once again show iOS is a too limited platform. It's not like Bitcoin will die at this stage, and Androids already passed iPhone - another reason to not get an iPhone.