Fri. 08/27 – Another Crack In The App Store

Another brick is taken out of the App Store wall as Apple blinks on letting devs inform users of outside purchase options. Ticket spaces start rolling out on Twitter, Waymo is having second thoughts about business models, NFTs are cool, but what if you could earn royalties? And of course, the Weekend Longread Suggestions. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Metalab.com Links: Apple will let developers email users about payments outside iOS (Protocol) Apple’s $100 million settlement agreement changes a key App Store rule for developers (The Verge) Twitter starts launching Ticketed Spaces for some iOS users (The Verge) Waymo will stop selling its self-driving LiDAR sensors to other companies (TechCrunch) Paradigm and Founders Fund lead $16 million investment in 3LAU's NFT music platform Royal (The Block) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Netflix and Video Games (MatthewBall.vc) Turns Out The Hardest Part of Making a Game Is...Everything (IGN) Cryptocurrency Companies Are Leaving China in ‘Great Mining Migration’ (WSJ) El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment (WSJ) A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps (ArsTechnica) The Real C.E.O. of “Succession” (The New Yorker)