Re:AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS...
by montagg on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:08AM
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I wholeheartedly agree, and I think when it comes to Apple holding the keys to their own platform, we have that balance: you don’t like Apple’s management, you go to Android instead, and there’s competition.
Plenty other areas I’d like to see Apple’s control weakened where it impacts the user experience, but running arbitrary code on iOS devices isn’t one of them, for me.
I'm all for installing whatever software you want on the hardware you paid for but there is definitely a balance that needs to be struck for the majority of users and I can tell you that the majority of users aren't informed enough to know the drawbacks of an alternate App Store.
Source: I was an early jailbreaker and remember when, as soon as the jailbreak became an app that you just installed and ran with the phone hooked up to a computer, my business exponentially increased. People would jailbreak phones for their friends and families without explaining anything and then I'd have to service their devices to un-brick them and get them back to stock.