You're kidding right? Petitions make no difference? http://www.avaaz.org/en/highlights.php or http://www.change.org/victories. Enough signatures and they will without doubt pay attention, companies like Apple take their PR very seriously.

The gotcha is you need to get in the 100k sigs mark which is difficult with something as niche as bitcoin, got to try though right? Oh and ditch/jailbreak your iToys too of course, you throw everything at them...