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Let apple try to block this. The anti-trust eagles will swoop in!!!
The smartphone ecosystem is very healthy, there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to get exactly what they want.
Remember when you took out SuperBowl ads [1] demonizing authoritarian, totalitarian megacorps that told you how to think and what to do - YOU are that company in 2019.
Maybe if you let this alt store be, and monitor it's metrics you'll see that your users really want cheaper, more-full featured apps that you'd never allow on the app store - like a competing browser engine (Chromium), or JIT enabled javascript core [2], ...
It may also happen that this alt-store becomes a piracy and malware haven - in which case, your thesis of totalitarian moderation might win. I'd bet my money on the former - a thriving alt-store filled with apps Apple is too cowardly to approve on it's main store - like Steam Game Streaming, Chromium Browser, JIT enabled js/node, ...
This is the AltStore's main link: https://altstore.io
This is the author's launch blogpost: http://rileytestut.com/blog/2019/09/25/introducing-altstore/
And this is the Github repo: https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore
Isn’t apple just gonna blacklist this somehow? I get that you’re signing the app, but it’s definitely against the TOS in some obscure way. It’s not as though they won’t know which Apple IDs are logged in to the phones this gets installed on, regardless of signing certs. Edit: I do really like this though, it is a clever way out of the walled garden! I’ve used TestFlight to load stuff like ish on my phone, and would c…
In fact arguably they should implement signed reciepts so they don't have to track which apps you own. As it is they know all the apps you own, and probably even when and how often you run them.
Instead they could send you a cryptographically signed receipt and then not actually keep track of which apps you own. When you want an update they verify the receipt. That would be more privacy oriented than what they have now.
Let apple try to block this. The anti-trust eagles will swoop in!!!
I think if moderation of the apps you can install on iOS was going to become a legal issue, we would have already been there. The reality is, if Apple wrongs you, you can walk into Best Buy or whatever and buy and Android phone. The smartphone ecosystem is very healthy, there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to get exactly what they want.
iTunes WiFi sync is going to be deprecated, because iTunes is being deprecated.
Seems like a very nice job and will likely make Impactor and signing services like Tuta or AppValley obsolete.
Looks like they've already hidden/dropped this from the App Store... That was fast!
I’ve been able to install the AltStore app to my phone but nothing else, it can’t find the server even though we’re on the same network.
Looks like they've already hidden/dropped this from the App Store... That was fast!