Welcome to the Tech Meam bride Home for Tuesday, October 25th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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In deference to the developers in the audience, I'm going to lead with this one with the release of the OS 16s.1 yesterday

came new App Store guidelines that say that social networking apps that sell

boosts for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions and now they've basically

nerved NFTs, quoting Mac rumors.

Notably, the update prevents apps from using

NFTs to bypass in-app purchase rules.

Apple's guidelines say that apps can sell NFTs and related services using the in-app purchase system,

but apps that are designed to allow users to view NFTs cannot use NFT ownership as a mechanism to unlock features or functionality within an app.

NFT browsing apps are allowed but cannot include buttons links or other calls

to action for purchasing mechanisms

across media-to-purchase.

Apple says that apps created for the sole purpose of allowing advertisers to purchase and manage

advertising campaigns across media types do not need to use

in-app purchases while also clarifying that digital purchases such as

booths within social media apps such as Facebook do indeed need to use the in-app purchase function.

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