For now I am just updating the zap button to show the customize zap view, with wording that says “zap bob” to make it clear you’re definitely not zapping a note. Will also have to remove the orange highlight on the zap button, zap listing on notes, and total zap amount on notes. Will also have to remove zap replies / zapvertising. At the end the zap button on notes will only be a shortcut for zapping users.
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Its not a defeat, it is a learning process. Thanks man for your cool work.
This is a good compromise and let’s continue our progression. The rest of the world will catch up eventually.
Will we be able to send a message with profile zaps? A gif? YouTube link for a video that renders.
Thank you for everything.
How is this not being apple's slave bitch?
Unbelievable!
We'll be there again soon.
So should we call it a bear market for Damus iOS for now?
🙏Daily reminder: TURN OFF your auto-updates!🙌
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For testflight too?
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Could a user still download the old zap code and use it in Xcode?
You’re the man. Keep pushing.
So, the best features. RIP #zapvertising on Damus.
What about a progressive web app.
Instead of bending the knee to redesign the functionality to meet the expectations of a corp instead of the usage of the market place.
Steve Jobs should have just demolished the company like Francisco D'Anconia. Jesus Christ, look what Apple does with their time and money now; haggling over button highlights and CTA's?
Apple: The app that invented zaps is doing zaps wrong.
Anything we can do to apply pressure from this end and hold a mirror up to their myopia?
Fucking Apple fucks
In the meantime, hopefully they’ll listen to feedback like this. I do think if we can convince them that it’s in their interests to support Lightning payments, they’ll do it eventually. 
Objective and constructive, nice.
Thank you sir.
I have the benefit of experience here having worked there. This feedback goes directly to the engineering team responsible to evaluate and prioritize accordingly. I think we can sometimes get ahead of ourselves and assume it’s obvious that Bitcoin and Lightning should be supported. It’s certainly *not* obvious to everyone.
We can’t say both:
- “we’re so early!” and
- “Nooooo Apple should support Lightning zaps, it’s obvious, noooooo”.
The two statements are mutually exclusive.
The solution is time and explaining the rational case for bitcoin, and when speaking to a for-profit company, making it clear why it’s a win-win.
I fully agree, thanks for adding the context!
Why did apple backtrack on their approval? Do you think there is a push coming to review all btc/ln apps?
They simply took a closer look at the feature, and found that it clearly violates one of their rules for monetization (which is that tips associated directly with content must use in-app purchase).
This does happen. Most people don’t realize that a number of years back there was a large outcry at the length of app review times. They fixed it, and I’m pretty sure that was partially by not looking as closely at everything an update does.
I don’t think anyone should infer there’s any prejudice towards bitcoin or that there’s going to be any wider look at BTC-oriented apps. Many folks definitely seem to be drawing the wrong conclusions here IMO, from what I’ve seen in the last week.
> it clearly violates one of their rules for monetization (which is that tips associated directly with content must use in-app purchase)
This is the assessment where I disagree.
Tips are *not* associated with purchasing, selling, or receiving content (damus has not implemented e.g. content paywall/similar functionality).
> If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, (by way of example: subscriptions, in-game currencies, game levels, access to premium content, or unlocking a full version), you must use in-app purchase
There are *no* unlock mechanisms.
> Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency wallets, etc. Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase, except as set forth in 3.1.3(a).
There are *no* unlock, or purchasing mechanisms.
Apple must understand there is a double standard applied in the case of Damus.
If you ban voluntary peer to peer tips, Apple must also ban venmo, and zelle.
Apple aren’t objecting to tips. They’re objecting to the zap button underneath each piece of content. And they’ve had a rule that specifies you can’t do that for some time. Their rules are maddeningly complex but this one is right there in plain sight: 
Once again, this is the key point of objection.
Notes are not NFTs. Notes are not owned if lightning is tipped directly to a LN address. Tips happens peer-to-peer outside nostr. Nostr client simply provides notes, and information of the poster for all others.
The tip is
1) completely optional
2) 100% go to receiver of the gift
As explicitly stated in the text you shared.
I think I’ll stop arguing here, as Apple’s language - which is intentionally broad with the ‘associated’ term being key here - is clear to me, and it’s equally clear I’m not convincing you otherwise.
I don’t like it, I hope they change it, but it is the reality. We won’t change their mind by telling them their own rule is saying something else.
I hear you, and appreciate the feedback since you know the company well.
Agree company can do what they want.
I think the long-term solution could be to open the eyes of a leader in-house of the opportunity of LN.
What happens if a simple like triggers such a "monetary gift"?
What if you have a bot running somewhere, listening for your likes, and each time you like a note it finds the LN Address of the author and tips some sats.
Would Apple ban likes?
Would Apple even whether this is happening or not?
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Keep doing the lords work brother.
Zapping hard as a mother fucker today, Will. Love you.
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Sorry Will but Iphone was never an option we as free thinkers bitcoiners should focus our energy on open-source software and operational systems to develop this wonderful open-source protocol we are using.
Can you just create a Fork from Steemit/Blurt/Hive …. (Graphene Blockchain) on GitHub … Create a coin called Zap or Damus that can be converted to Bitcoin on Ionomy …. a web version that includes Zap… #zap The same way bloggers are rewarded with a Like on Hive, Steemit, Blurt https://Blurt.blog
#RottenApple 🍎 🤮
What if I don't update the app? Actually I'm using the testflight version
Can you add a view note in browser button?!
This is like goverment censorship at Apple level.
The true original definition of fascism by Mussolini is "The marriage of private business and government." He is the person that coined the term, so I go with this definition.
Apple censoring at the request or order of the government would be fascism.
Here, have a zap.
Apple is dead as a freedom ecosystem. Actually, Apple never lived on that universe. It's the whole reason I have refused to buy their products.
Are test flight users affected since it’s not coming from the App Store?
It’s a good workaround for now. Better to comply and play the long game. Zapping everything will win in the long run!
Why do you consider the iPhone App is the priority？
Sorry this is happening 🫂 I hope it gets reversed under pressure soon. Keep brave dood
Stupid Tim🍎 that’s not the way #Nostr works ☹️
C'est hallucinant qu'Apple vous injonctevl ce qu'il faut faire ou pas jusqu'à rendre presqu'invisible une part de votre selon moi personner n'a le droit de me dire j'ai à faire ou pas.