In an interview with The Information, OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer made it clear the company is eager to launch an app with the ability to buy and sell NFTs, which Apple’s App Store policies now prevent.

Owen O'Donoghue, who spent more than a decade working in Facebook’s (now Meta) gaming division and is on the verge of launching his own crypto-based game, said Apple’s strict App Store rules, which prohibit a large degree of functionality and takes a 30% cut of all in-app transactions, is a major impediment to the wider adoption of blockchain games.   

Apple Inc. is preparing to allow alternative app stores due to EU regulatory requirements, offering app developers a means of bypassing Apple’s restrictions and its 30% commission.

Apple is weighing whether to allow third-party apps to use their own payments infrastructure, <i>Bloomberg</i> claims, rather than force developers to route payments through Apple’s own payments setup. That particular shift, if implemented, could make it much easier to spend cryptocurrency through iPhone and iPad apps.

On Wednesday, Apple Inc. made an announcement that might sound minor: It will now offer end-to-end encryption for most material its users backup on its iCloud storage service.

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<a href="https://decrypt.co/resources/metamask" target="_blank">MetaMask</a> co-founder and ex-Apple employee Dan Finlay says he’s all in favor of the crypto industry ditching Apple’s App Store altogether, calling Apple’s 30% in-app purchase tax “an abuse of monopoly.”

Coinbase Wallet announced their inability to push new updates to their iOS wallets on December 1st, 2022, citing blocks from Apple.

Coinbase Wallet said Apple had blocked the latest release of its app in an effort to “collect 30% of the gas fee” through in-app purchases.

Coinbase Wallet has disabled the sending of NFTs on its iOS app as Apple wants the transactions to go through its in-app purchase system to collect 30% of the gas fees.