Apple followed through on threats from earlier in the month to remove Damus from its App Store.
from the App Store over non-compliance of Apple’s payment guidelines after the tech giant followed through on threats to take down the app over a dispute around Damus’ tipping feature.... [+]Damus’ tipping feature allows users to trade bitcoin without involvement from other apps—a function that drew pushback from Apple, which takes afor in-app purchases and said tips “connected to” digital content have to use in-app purchase in accordance with its guidelines.
Damus will appeal the decision, calling the guideline it's based on"abused and misapplied,” arguing that no digital content is unlocked when users are tipped. The tipping feature could once be used through posts and users’ profiles, but after Apple threatened to take down Damus earlier this month, the app limited the feature to profiles—a change it believed would make it compliant with Apple’s guidelines.
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