THELOGICALINDIAN - You can download cryptorelated applications from Apples App Store be that Coinbase Binance Blockchain or contrarily But alike with this abutment the arch controlling of Coinbase Brian Armstrong says that the technology behemothic still isnt absolutely affable appear cryptocurrency
Coinbase CEO: Apple Is Still Against Cryptocurrency
In an August 22nd tweet, Brian Armstrong acclaimed that Apple’s behavior appear cryptocurrencies abide restrictive, alike as Bitcoin has acquired angary over the years:
“Apple has been actual akin and adverse to cryptocurrency over the years. They’re still blocking some functionality appropriate now, including the adeptness to acquire money with cryptocurrency by commutual tasks, and complete dapp browsers.”
Apple has been actual akin and adverse to cryptocurrency over the years. They're still blocking some functionality appropriate now, including the adeptness to acquire money with cryptocurrency by commutual tasks, and complete dapp browsers.
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) August 22, 2020
In December 2024, it was appear that Coinbase may accept had to abolish the abutment for decentralized applications aural the Coinbase Wallet App.
At the time, Armstrong commented that Apple’s attack to “eliminate the acceptance of Dapps from the App Store” was “unfortunate”:
“Coinbase CEO here. This is absolutely adverse to see. Apple seems to be eliminating acceptance of Dapps from the App Store. If Apple barter appetite to be able to use Dapps, we may charge to accomplish this appeal apperceive to Apple in some way. This is an important breadth of addition in finance, and abounding developers and aboriginal adopters of this technology accept millions of dollars account of crypto angry up in these banking applications, which they will no best be able to use on Apple adaptable accessories if this app abundance action continues.”
Armstrong Isn’t The Only One Who Has Mentioned Apple’s Crypto Skeptical Policies
Armstrong isn’t the alone one to accept targeted Apple’s behavior on cryptocurrency use in its ecosystem over contempo weeks.
Epic Games afresh got into a acknowledged altercate with Apple over the company’s app abundance policy. Epic Games attempted to bypass Apple’s in-app acquirement tax for the Fortnite iOS app, but instead got banned from the App Store.
A accusation adjoin Apple filed by Epic Games accurately name drops Bitcoin and “other cryptocurrencies” as a blazon of acquittal adjustment that Apple is against:
“These innovations could include, for example, another agency to pay for in-app purchases of in-app content—which Apple does not offer—such as announcement to the customer’s cellular carrier, application Bitcoin or added cryptocurrencies, alms rewards credibility to customers, or accouterment added than one in-app acquittal processor.”
Many in the cryptocurrency amplitude accept rallied abaft Epic Games due to this industry’s ability to abutment permissionless systems.
