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AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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Re: AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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Post by oarsinsync »

dgellow wrote: post #134
pretext-1 wrote: post #70

There seems to be an issue with the download. After purchasing it redirects to a download page but when clicking on download nothing happens. Other users on Reddit are reporting this too. Hope it gets fixed or refunded.

Same issue here on an iPhone SE. Also tried on an iPad, where I got a pop up “you can only install this marketplace on an iPhone”, which is disappointing.

> Also tried on an iPad, where I got a pop up “you can only install this marketplace on an iPhone”, which is disappointing.

Apple claim that the iOS App Store is a separate entity to the iPadOS App Store, and thus, doesn’t qualify as a gatekeeper under the EU DMA. Apple have made alternative app stores only available to iPhones running iOS 17.4+.

Apple may benefit from you registering your disappointment with them directly, so that they can stop bragging about their immense customer satisfaction percentages in future product launches.

Re: AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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Post by luismedel »

luismedel wrote: post #138
roblabla wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the same problem. I had to long press the download button and open in a new tab for it to do anything. It then showed the popup saying I needed to allow installation of the app in the settings before long-pressing download again.

I'm trying right now from Spain, using an iPhone SE with iOS 17.4.1 and faced the following problems: - I used Firefox, which can't be used for this. OK, I go to Safari. - In Safari, I tap the "Download" button and get a message indicating that I can't install because my settings. I only see two options "OK" and "More information", but no details about "which" setting I need to change. - In the "More information" pag…

Update on my post: you need to enable "Screen time" in your phone :-O

Re: AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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Post by uyzstvqs »

Honestly, if you're remotely interested in installing this then just get an Android phone and get real side-loading.

AltStore is more like a franchise of the App Store where Apple is still in charge, but doesn't directly run it.

What's funny is that here in Europe where this AltStore now exists, Android is clearly far more common than Apple already anyway.

Re: AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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Post by pantulis »

reaperducer wrote: post #73
toast0 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always wanted to watch movies just a bit faster. (and yes, with more consistent color, and a higher vertical resolution) Although, I'm sure US commercial TV stations frame drop movies to speed them up so they can insert more commercials these days anyway.

Although, I'm sure US commercial TV stations frame drop movies to speed them up so they can insert more commercials these days anyway. I can't say how it's done today, but at the TV station where I worked in the 1990's, we did. But we never dropped frames of content. That would cause all kinds of copyright and contract problems. We did, however, drop frames of black and superblack. In an average hour, we were able to…

What is "superblack"?

Re: AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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Post by extraduder_ire »

giobox wrote: post #21
rwbt wrote: post #7

Love the 'PAL' reference - just like how many in North America were pining for the PAL video standard (initially Europe but later entire world except North America) but we were stuck with NTSC (and doubled down).

Really? As someone who grew up with PAL, we were pining for your 60fps NTSC output, especially in fast games like beatem-ups etc (PAL is 50). I still remember the first time I saw an imported Japanese PS1 playing Teken 2, and how much smoother it looked on NTSC. I could never look at my PAL copy the same way again, I couldn't unsee the NTSC version. For me personally, those extra 10 frames trump the extra 100 scanlin…

PAL60 was a thing, but a lot of older TVs didn't support it. A bunch of playstation (ps2, mainly) games had button combos you held down on startup to enable it or, more rarely, a menu option to switch. I learned about it while playing burnout 4, and that it only worked on one of the house TVs.

A lot of PAL ports of games ran slower because they weren't re-timed correctly if at all. On the flipside, being the last major region to get games, there was often additional content by the time they got here. Like the infamous "European extreme" difficulty in MGS3.

Re: AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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Post by extraduder_ire »

pantulis wrote: post #145
reaperducer wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although, I'm sure US commercial TV stations frame drop movies to speed them up so they can insert more commercials these days anyway. I can't say how it's done today, but at the TV station where I worked in the 1990's, we did. But we never dropped frames of content. That would cause all kinds of copyright and contract problems. We did, however, drop frames of black and superblack. In an average hour, we were able to…

What is "superblack"?

In a TV signal, the brightness is encoded using certain signal levels. So you'll have a set black point, and white point representing the darkest and brightest values to be displayed respectively.

If you send a signal outside those bands, it's known as a superblack/superwhite. The "blanking interval" (when the beam is meant to start at the top of the screen again) has a signal blacker than any black that would show up in a broadcast. If that were not the case, a black screen in a show would mess up your TVs tracking.

Re: AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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Post by skyyler »

saurik wrote: post #129
broodbucket wrote: post #124

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In what sense? Testing my memory here, but it let you install stuff from various developers. Cydia cranked things up several notches (thanks for that, by the way), but are they both not "stores"?

I guess, to me, the defining characteristic of a "store" is that you can buy things at a store... it just feels awkward to say that a store is just a place that has things and lets you get them on request ;P. AppTapp Installer was merely a package manager, and they did not implement any store functionality. FWIW, in Cydia's case, I didn't launch "Cydia Store" until about a year after I launched "Cydia Installer". (Ap…

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/store#Noun

>A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

Didn't installer.app come configured for repositories of software you could install? I seem to remember one of the first things people installed was an app that gave you extra repos to choose from

Re: AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

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Post by dang »

reaperducer wrote: post #72
rwbt wrote: post #7

Love the 'PAL' reference - just like how many in North America were pining for the PAL video standard (initially Europe but later entire world except North America) but we were stuck with NTSC (and doubled down).

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