Apple has surrendered. Yes, that's right. The supreme fortress of Cupertino's control over your apps and transactions has cracked. And this crack is cryptocurrency.
On April 30, Judge Yvonna Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to stop mistreating developers and to remove the anti-crypto chokehold. The reason? The court found that Apple intentionally violated the antitrust ruling from 2021. That is, it didn't just misunderstand — it deliberately continued to pretend that NFTs and blockchain were like Bitcoin in 2012: trendy, but not serious.
And now — attention!
Apple can no longer prohibit developers from including external links to crypto payments and NFT platforms. Now you can buy digital monkeys and swords for the metaverse not through Apple Pay, but directly. Without the 30% tax!
A few numbers. You can't go without them.
• App Store 'tax' — 30% on each transaction.
• The NFT market (despite the crypto winter) was valued at $12.6 billion in 2023.
• Mobile games with Web3 — potential of $60+ billion if Apple truly lifts all restrictions.
• Only Epic Games lost tens of millions due to lack of access to iOS.
And now, as Web3 analyst Xero expressed (by the way, he has 50,000 subscribers, so he has no right to lie):
"This is very optimistic for mobile cryptocurrency games and apps."
And Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who previously called Apple 'dictators of the App Store,' is now proposing a truce. He says he will bring back Fortnite if Apple humanely applies changes worldwide. Touching.
What does this mean?
Web3 is not just surviving on the iPhone — it is advancing.
No longer do you need to navigate complex routes from apps to browsers to buy NFTs, bypass Apple Tax, or launch a blockchain wallet.