I wouldn't count `you need to connect to the mac and install the apps every 7 days unless you have a development program that cost $100 a year` as `You have been able to sideload apps on iOS`.

It need to at least be persistent or it didn't count.

> you need to connect to the mac and install the apps every 7 days

Except you don’t! I really recommend looking at AltStore before judging the convenience based on how things were years ago when you last had the whim to look.

Isn't is literally show the `7 Days` on their home page? Except this time, they bypass the physical connect requirement with wifi.

The AltStore app refreshes automatically in the background, so as long as your phone is on the same wifi once per seven days, that’s it. You don’t need to do anything else. Try reading past the fold and you’ll find direct quotes like this:

> AltStore will periodically attempt to refresh your apps in the background, and you can always manually refresh your apps from within AltStore.

I honestly though "you can keep the app as long as you connect the wifi" and "safari won't wipe your data a long as you enter the site one time in every several days" the same kind of bs.

It's not solution, it is workaround for the apple's creepy behavior.

> It's not solution

Because you don’t want solutions, you just want to complain about Apple not doing exactly what you want when you want. Apple’s not your company if you expect them to cater to your whims, that’s never been their MO (for better or for worse).

> apple's creepy behavior

Really?