Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, August 27th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Another brick is taken out of the App Store wall as Apple blinks on letting

devs inform users of outside purchase options. Ticketed spaces start

rolling out on Twitter. Waimo is having second thoughts about a

business model.

NFTs are cool, but what if you could earn royalties and of course the weekend long-range suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Crack or maybe I should have searched for a sound effect to use there, but another

crack in the App Store wall this morning as Apple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit and will

let developers directly contact customers in aid of informing them about purchase options

outside of iOS, quoting protocol. The would-be shift was proposed after negotiations with developers in the Cameron-E at-all versus Apple suit, which is before federal district judge Yvonne

Gonzalez Rogers. She will now decide whether to approve it. The announcements

come however as Apple also awaits a verdict from Gonzales Rogers in a separate lawsuit brought by Epic Games.

During the trial in that lawsuit earlier this year, Gonzales Rogers repeatedly questioned the

logic behind stopping apps from communicating with their own customers and

Apple told reporters on Thursday evening that her statements had

influenced what it was willing to accept.

We would like to thank the developers who worked with us to reach these agreements in

support of the

goals of the App Store and to the benefit of all our users.

Apples Phil Schiller, who oversees the App Store, said in a statement.

Users will have to opt in to receive outside messages from apps in addition to the

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