Banned for what
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Yeah, I don’t think that this will get you banned. Massive applications in the App Store have work arounds. Spotify won’t even let you sign up through their iOS application. You’d think Apple, as a direct competitor in music streaming, would have thrown the gauntlet down. They didn’t.
I highly doubt they’re going do anything about this. It has nothing to do with your application.
If Spotify had a secret way to sign users up from the app I’m sure apple would either take their 30% or ban them.
Apple guidelines are quite simple.
If the "content" is consumed inside the app, they want 30%. Which is why you can't buy a Kindle on the Amazon app.
This has nothing to do with #bitcoin
Correct, we have a disclaimer inside our iOS app (so does Netflix) that alert the user they can buy a membership on our website and we never had a problem with Apple.
As long as the "purchase" of the content happens outside of Damus, they will have no problem with it.
But the emoji is posted inside the app. It’s a gray area.
So it’s our disclaimer that says you can buy a membership - which is required to use the app - outside of the app.
Now I wonder if we should also add a button that send the user directly to our website. 
In other words Apple doesn’t really care that we’re instructing users on how to evade their 30% commission.
It only cares that when “content” is “purchased” AND “consumed” inside the app, they get 30% of it.
The original zap feature doesn’t fit that description as the content was not purchased. It was public, zaps were like micro donations. Apple is likely afraid of BTC circumventing their ability to charge fees entirely. An interesting test is to submit a new app, with the old feature enabled but that gives 30% of the BTC to Apple.
This is still against their app policy, the fact that its emojis vs proper UI is irrelevant. They are not disallowing zaps by mistake, I’m sure Cook is aware of the threat BTC poses to their monopoly tax. iOS is an antithetical platform to nostr, we must embrace open W3C standards.
This would imply that displaying note zaps is not allowed, because i have no control over what third party service people use for sending zaps in response to reactions. You do have to go outside of the app to set this up… definitely gray area. Not sure how app reviewers would interpret it.
Similar to $11 & $8 blue check
Then please someone build a similar thing for WhatsApp and Twitter and Threads and every app you can imagine and get the whole world banned and leave apple with an empty AppStore with just their Messages and FaceTime apps on it 😂
Assuming they allow it, are you willing to give 30% of all zaps to Apple to enable the previous feature? It’s risky to build any app on a tech monopoly platform.
Cuck mentality👆🥴
Will can't stop forces outside of his app scanning for emojis and zapping eachother.
And he shouldn't even if he could
What about the EU banning the walled garden? Forcing Apple to allow side loading ? This should change things
thats why android is love, atleast you arent extremely controlled by a cook.
So what is someone sets up a hidden zap service scanning for emoji’s or hastags in tweets and zap-addresses in bio’s? Would Twitter app get banned?
That may effectively happen. But let’s see the bright side of it: the reason they will provide in order to shut this down is going to be, if it ever happens, a funky reason!