AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices

Re:AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS... by teawrecks on Sunday November 08, 2020 @08:19PM (#25030559)

From Apple's POV, a completely unlocked system that allows the user can do anything is like selling a solid cube of untouched marble. It's the default. The Apple ecosystem on the other hand is a completed sculpture. They removed parts to craft a very specific vision. Yes you get less marble, but most people aren't sculptors, and they're not buying it for the marble. They're buying Apple's vision.

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Re:AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS... by rStar on Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:49PM (#25030995)

>From Apple's POV, a completely unlocked system that allows the user can do anything is like selling a car you can drive on all passable roads. It's the default. The Apple ecosystem on the other hand is a artificially restricted environment. They removed parts like the steering wheel to craft a very specific vision. Yes you get less freedom, but most people aren't technically literate, and they're not buying it for general purpose computing. They're buying Apple's monopolistic, user subjugating vision. Which includes as many ways as possible for Apple to capitalize on their monopoly.

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Re:AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS... by _dibly on Monday November 09, 2020 @12:09AM (#25031647)

Is there anything you wanted to contribute, or were you just fishing for upvotes here? There are about a million different ways to make any of the points you made that would actually merit a response, but you really took the ball and ran with it.

Do you think anyone is going to read your snarky response to someone who was making a reasonable point and think "this seems like someone who wants to have a conversation"?

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Re:AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS... by rStar on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:14AM (#25032886)

I wanted to contribute the comment I did, to illustrate what I believe, and how it differs to the view of the user I was responding to.

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Re:AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS... by hyperdimension on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:22PM (#25038646)

I'm not usually a fan of repeat-the-comment's-argument-but-replace-it-with-analagous-terms-type comments, I thought it was at least a decent comparison, especially considering that phones and cars are pretty general-purpose devices.

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Re:AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS... by stale2002 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @11:33PM (#25031485)

> They're buying Apple's vision.

Well then I have a great solution that helps both these users, and others who want to control their own device!

There could be a simple, easy to switch setting that says "all uncurated apps". A jailbreak switch, if you will.

And the consumers who want to turn that on could do it, and the people who prefer "Apple's vision" can choose not to do so.

Everyone wins!

Just don't flip the jailbreak switch if you prefer "apples vision". Easy.

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Re:AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS... by bluescrn on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:35AM (#25032620)

Then you browse the App Store and see that the beautiful sculpture is actually covered in excrement.

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