A service called "Setapp" plans to offer iPhone, iPad, and macOS users an alternative to Apple's walled garden in 2024. The business model is geared more like...

A service called “Setapp” plans to offer iPhone, iPad, and macOS users an alternative to Apple’s walled garden in 2024. The business model is geared more like…

  • Ilikecheese@lemm.ee
    2·
    10 months ago

    I hope they have time traveling technology to go with that App Store, because they’re a decade and a half or so late if they want to be the first 3rd party App Store for the iPhone. Off the top of my head I could name about a dozen that already exist or have existed in the past.

      • iquanyin@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        @elouboub

        @Ilikecheese it’s been possible since the first year of iphone, if you jailbreak. indeed, a lot of new features iphone got over the years were first found in jailbreak tweaks and apps.

      • mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        there are a handful from the jailbreaking days but most people didn’t bother because most of the time they were gone with the next ios-update.

        • elouboub@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          10 months ago

          So that’s going to change in 2024. They legally won’t be able to get kicked off iOS anymore and no jailbreak will be necessary.

        • amzd@kbin.social
          2·
          10 months ago

          If you had Cydia (which basically came with every jailbreak) you had a third party app store. The apple app store was literally inspired by it.