Apple is just larping, and Android has a bunch of open stores. I've been digging deep into the subject, if you're interested: https://zap.store/nostr/
This March iOS starts allowing 3rd-party AppStores. Still on its own rules and only in Europe but its a shift. As I understand (may be wrong here though) most popular Androids don’t let you chose stores, they just bundle theirs own
What if we make an AppStore client on nostr that works with NIP1 (maybe a couple more simple nips) that allows you to run your own store? You could even make it compatible with android, windows etc if you want. And partner with Strike to allow in-app purchases with bitcoin
Of course, even if our open-source community manages to accomplish this project technically, we won’t be able to run it on our iphones since someone would have to operate the platform and pass Apple’s review which I believe would be near to impossible, at least for the first time
But if we would build some skeleton/prototype, there could appear more companies willing to make business on that and promote nostr as a sideeffect
Googling “open-source app store” gives me zero relevant results
nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m what do you think?
#asknostr #startup #grownostr #appstr #storstr #ios #Apple
Discussion
Great writeup! Even though I can’t agree on too much hopium for nostr and bitcoin to fix everything and for (current) “AI” to change software development significantly
However, my suggestion is rather touches pretty different topic. In short, its bad to get a couple of new centralized app stores on iOS but its much better than none.
And if one of new centralized appstores utilizes nostr in one way or another, not necessarily in a full decentralized and censorship resistant way, it may be highly beneficial for nostr in general imo