The Antitrust case of Fortnite Maker Epic Games against Apple benefited the crypto industry on Thursday, when the iPhone maker restrictions on the ability of developers to offer apps in the US, who would offer users according to non-standard buying methods or digital collectoral objects or digital collective objects.
Apple has updated its iOS App Store Review Guidelines After an American district judge discovered this week that the technical titan “deliberately” violated a judicial order that was issued in 2021. In the future, the Federal Court forbade Apple to collect reimbursements on purchases outside the iOS apps (currently 27%) or limiting the ability of the developers to lead users to third-party websites.
In an e -mail obtained by DecryptApple reported iOS developers that “apps are in the store of the United States [no longer] Forbidden to record buttons, external links or other calls for action when allowing users to browse NFT collections that are owned by others. “
“The prohibition on encouraging users to use a different purchasing method than in-app purchase does not apply to the store of the United States,” the e-mail added.
Although the individual limitations do not apply to in-app functions, such as buying premium content or in-game boosts, they can lead to a “generation of gold consumer crypto bull run”, Wojciech Kulikowski, a software engineer at Farcaster” written On the decentralized media protocol.
“This will make more experiments possible with crypto-native mobile apps that were previously often blocked from Apple [iOS] App Store, “he said Decrypt.
In practice, NFT marketplaces such as OpenSea have limited functionality through their iOS apps. Users can browse through a Panophy of NFT collections, but they cannot buy them.
Some companies, including Magic Eden, have released digital portfolios with which users can make purchases in-app using a browser embedded in their application. The function reflects self -spice portfolios offered by companies such as Metamask, Coinbase and Uniswap.
Apple’s iOS App Store review guidelines still contain strict limitations when it comes to cryptocurrencies. Crypto apps cannot offer currency for completing tasks, facilitating the initial currency, also known as ICOs, or use user devices to exploit digital assets.
Google has updated its Google Play Store policy in 2023, allow NFTs to unlock in-app content, regardless of where they were purchased. The most important rival of Apple in the mobile space also required that game developers announce whether their experiences were based on blockchain, similar to the platform of the Epic Games.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Decrypt.
Published by Andrew Hayward