“Apple was against crypto from day one” says an ex-app store director.
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage It’s not simple to get an app listed in the Apple App Store, but it’s proven particularly difficult for cryptocurrency businesses and initiatives. According to Apple’s former App Store director, that is not by chance. The App Store’s rules, according to Phillip Shoemaker, who initially created them with the late Steve Jobs, have been changed in a way that he believes is purposefully ambiguous. He claims that as a result, Apple can act as a sort of gatekeeper, a position that was recently backed up by a Commerce Department report. Shoemaker claims that this has also given Apple the freedom to maintain its arbitrary animus toward cryptocurrencies in general and NFTs in particular. In an interview, he claimed that: Apple had a problem with crypto from day one. They thought it was a Ponzi scheme. App Store History Shoemaker, the CEO of Identity.com and a former executive at Apple fro...