{"id":29208,"date":"2020-09-25T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=29208"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:42:08","slug":"blockchain-com-joins-coalition-for-app-fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blockchain-com-joins-coalition-for-app-fairness\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain.com Joins Coalition for App Fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain.com has joined the list of initiators of a campaign against Apple. Its participants demand that the tech giant revoke the App Store&#8217;s 30% commission and allow iOS to download apps from sources other than the App Store.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A group of companies formally joined together to lobby against Apple\u2019s developer policies on iOS. Most interesting member is cooking app Prepear.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Apple shouldn\u2019t have tried to kill Prepear\u2019s trademark because they both use fruits\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EZB4fw6R9Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/EZB4fw6R9Q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o4RHwbcwFK\">pic.twitter.com\/o4RHwbcwFK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Gray (@emtgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emtgray\/status\/1309271848321003520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Coalition for App Fairness has united such companies as Epic Games, Spotify, Match Group, News Media Europe, Basecamp, Blix, Tile, Deezer, SkyDemon, ProtonMail, Prepair and others.<\/p>\n<p>Its members welcome any mobile app developers who seek to preserve consumer choice and a level playing field for doing business. The coalition&#8217;s founders are convinced that Apple is abusing its control of iOS to promote its own services.<\/p>\n<p>The manifesto&#8217;s authors urged the largest app-store operators to transform their policies so that they reflect ten principles. Among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open up other distribution options for apps, including using other payment systems;<\/li>\n<li>eliminate blocks and discrimination against developers based on business models or due to competition with the app store owner;<\/li>\n<li>repeal \u2018unfair, unreasonable, or discriminatory charges\u2019;<\/li>\n<li>provide access to the same technical information that the platform owner has.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier in September, due to Apple&#8217;s refusal to host decentralised apps in the App Store, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong also <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/brian-armstrong-accuses-apple-of-hampering-the-crypto-industry\">criticised<\/a> Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain.com, the cryptocurrency wallet provider, has joined the coalition of initiators of a campaign against Apple. Its participants are calling for the tech giant to revoke the App Store&#8217;s 30% commission and to allow iOS to download apps from sources other than the App Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1112,1480,996],"class_list":["post-29208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-apple","tag-blockchain-apps","tag-blockchain-com"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"7","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29209,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29208\/revisions\/29209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}