In the latest update of the rules for applications present on the App Store, Apple has chosen to limit the potential brought by NFTs. Back to these questionable measures.
Apple limits the use of NFTs
Apple has never been known to advocate decentralization as well as its web3 values, and the latest app store rules update regarding non-fungible tokens (NFT) confirm this again.
Indeed, although NFTs remain authorized on the brand’s operating system, a new addition in the examination guidelines for new applications limits its use. At least that’s what these instructions seem to say:
“Apps can use in-app purchase to […] sell non-fungible token (NFT) related services, such as mint, listing and transfer. Applications can allow users to view their own NFTs, as long as the NFT property does not unlock the […] app features. »
According to these lines, an NFT on an application hosted on Apple should be limited to its collection aspect or its artistic dimension. All the functional aspect to unlock other content is thus set aside.
Thus, it is easy to imagine that it would not be possible, for a project, to authorize access to this or that part of the application only to the holders of a special NFT. Nevertheless, the text still poses some areas of blur. And for good reason, if we take these words at face value, what about NFT games?
Indeed, the principle of a video game is to unlock the following levels or to evolve thanks to one’s experience. But if the equipment or this experience is based on a non-fungible token system, this is theoretically against Apple’s rules. Moreover, the game Sorare, yet present on the AppStore, has a system of leagues available only to holders of certain cards.
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The second part of the text also seems at odds with Web3 spiritlimiting users to in-app purchase:
“Applications may allow users to browse NFT collections owned by others, provided that applications may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to search mechanisms. purchase other than the in-app purchase. »
In other words, an application on iOS should not be able to redirect us to a marketplace such as OpenSea for example. This measure is probably intended to prevent circumventing the 30% commission rule that Apple reserves for itself on the sale of NFTs.
As more and more crypto projects take smartphone users into accountApple may not be a growth vector for this part of the industry, faced with such restrictions.
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