Damus To Be Removed From Apple's App Store in 14 Days Due To Zaps
Damus, Nostr client for iOS, is being asked to integrate Apple-approved in-app purchases in accordance with guideline 3.1.1 instead of zaps or be removed from the app store.
- "Damus will be removed from the app store in 14 days, Apple says zaps are not allowed on their platform because they *could* be used by content creators to sell digital content," said the app's developer jb55.
- "This is right before I’m about to give my talk at the Oslo Freedom Forum on how decentralized social networks with lightning integration are bringing financial freedom to the masses... pretty sus…"
- "This would be a watershed moment: If people can’t transact freely p2p on their platform, this has huge implications for the entire ecosystem of apps with lightning integration and v4v," wrote the developer.
- Apps may use in-app purchase currencies to enable customers to “tip” the developer or digital content providers in the app," states Apple's App store guideline 3.1.1.
