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The locked down AppStore experience is the same on iOS...you can't install apps from different stores, they don't exist

by mister_hn 7y ago

paulcarroty 7y ago
https://altstore.io/ https://altstore.io/ welcome to 2020.
- RandomBacon 7y ago
  Cool, but there are still on ton of limitations and basically no apps. https://altstore.io/faq/ https://altstore.io/faq/ It's 2020, more than a decade after the iPhone was released, and 99.9%+ of users can still only use Apple's App Store.
- captn3m0 7y ago
  Does this work well with Wine? I don’t want to boot up Mac
- freedomben 7y ago
  I am genuinely interested in an answer to this question, even tho it will sound like a troll. If people want to sideload apps and such, which explicitly hacks around the system designed by Apple, why are they using Apple devices (which are notoriously locked down and restricted to "Apple's way") in the first place? Why not use Android or something else where that sort of thing is designed for? Same kind of question for jailbreakers. Isn't the desire to jail break indicative that you want a more flexible platform? Why wouldn't you use something else besides Apple?
  - soylentcola 7y ago
    I did buy an iPad 2 back when it was current. I needed something like a tablet for an extended trip where a laptop would have been too much to carry around and the only real competition at the time was the disappointing Motorola Xoom so I bought an iPad. I ended up "jailbreaking" it because there were just so many things I wanted it to do that weren't possible with the stock OS and approved applications (adblocking, better keyboard layout, file system access, and mouse support among other things). Many of these have eventually been implemented to some extent or another, but at the time they were unavailable via the App Store but easily done via the Cydia store. Since then, the iPad 2 aged out of usefulness and my need for a tablet has mostly dried up. Likewise, options for other higher-powered, well built, and lightweight laptops/tablets have expanded so I've not purchased any more Apple stuff for the reasons you point out. I basically "jailbroke" because it was the only way to get my device to do what I wanted it to do. Now that they exist, I just use other devices that don't require me to jump through those hoops. Still, I wish there was a way to install some sort of lightweight OS on that iPad 2 (which is now sitting in a box somewhere).

The locked down AppStore experience is the same on iOS...you can't install apps from different stores, they don't exist

paulcarroty 7y ago

https://altstore.io/ https://altstore.io/ welcome to 2020.

RandomBacon 7y ago
Cool, but there are still on ton of limitations and basically no apps. https://altstore.io/faq/ https://altstore.io/faq/ It's 2020, more than a decade after the iPhone was released, and 99.9%+ of users can still only use Apple's App Store.
captn3m0 7y ago
Does this work well with Wine? I don’t want to boot up Mac
freedomben 7y ago
I am genuinely interested in an answer to this question, even tho it will sound like a troll. If people want to sideload apps and such, which explicitly hacks around the system designed by Apple, why are they using Apple devices (which are notoriously locked down and restricted to "Apple's way") in the first place? Why not use Android or something else where that sort of thing is designed for? Same kind of question for jailbreakers. Isn't the desire to jail break indicative that you want a more flexible platform? Why wouldn't you use something else besides Apple?
- soylentcola 7y ago
  I did buy an iPad 2 back when it was current. I needed something like a tablet for an extended trip where a laptop would have been too much to carry around and the only real competition at the time was the disappointing Motorola Xoom so I bought an iPad. I ended up "jailbreaking" it because there were just so many things I wanted it to do that weren't possible with the stock OS and approved applications (adblocking, better keyboard layout, file system access, and mouse support among other things). Many of these have eventually been implemented to some extent or another, but at the time they were unavailable via the App Store but easily done via the Cydia store. Since then, the iPad 2 aged out of usefulness and my need for a tablet has mostly dried up. Likewise, options for other higher-powered, well built, and lightweight laptops/tablets have expanded so I've not purchased any more Apple stuff for the reasons you point out. I basically "jailbroke" because it was the only way to get my device to do what I wanted it to do. Now that they exist, I just use other devices that don't require me to jump through those hoops. Still, I wish there was a way to install some sort of lightweight OS on that iPad 2 (which is now sitting in a box somewhere).