AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by tdsanchez on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:14PM (#40068261)

Cydia was the first alternate app store.

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by lantonmills on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @03:32PM (#40069135)

You're forgetting Installer.app, which predated Cydia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installer.app

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by saurik on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:04PM (#40071011)

(I'd argue that wasn't a "store".)

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by broodbucket on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:10PM (#40072587)

In what sense? Testing my memory here, but it let you install stuff from various developers. Cydia cranked things up several notches (thanks for that, by the way), but are they both not "stores"?

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by saurik on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:05AM (#40073138)

I guess, to me, the defining characteristic of a "store" is that you can buy things at a store... it just feels awkward to say that a store is just a place that has things and lets you get them on request ;P.

AppTapp Installer was merely a package manager, and they did not implement any store functionality. FWIW, in Cydia's case, I didn't launch "Cydia Store" until about a year after I launched "Cydia Installer".

(AppTapp also wasn't the first package manager for the iPhone, but maybe it was the first one on-device? The one I had used involved USB and some web page I think, but I am forgetting the name.)

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by skyyler on Thursday April 18, 2024 @02:35PM (#40079307)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/store#Noun

>A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

Didn't installer.app come configured for repositories of software you could install? I seem to remember one of the first things people installed was an app that gave you extra repos to choose from

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by sureglymop on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:26PM (#40082888)

Cydia was awesome. As a kid, the porting of apt and dpkg to ios was what got me into linux and debian, having only had access to an ipod touch before. Thank you for your work, it is inspiring.

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by aptgetrekt on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:44PM (#40068613)

*Cydia was the first app store [on iPhones]

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by EcommerceFlow on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:32PM (#40068485)

I wonder if Cydia would be allowed on the new alternative app marketplace...

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by pfg_ on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:48PM (#40068659)

Cydia installs deb packages which can modify system files. The EU method only allows installation of signed .ipa apps

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Re:AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iP... by aprilnya on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:26PM (#40070714)

This is specifically talking about alternate app stores through Apple's new official way of doing it. If we're talking about alternate app stores in general, even AltStore itself was before AltStore PAL

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