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Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 91 points 4 months ago

I would prefer if they were not based in the US, both for jurisdiction reasons and cultural reasons (no offense to sane Americans).

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 67 points 4 months ago

No offense taken, we suck

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 32 points 4 months ago

no offense to sane Americans

I don't think any reasonable american would take offense. I would prefer it wasn't either.

[-] SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

There's only one type to take offense to that. We were embarrassing before this and we'll be sure to embarrass ourselves in the future. It's the American way.

[-] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago

Is your country taking American Refugees yet?

[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

We have a war on, so probably not the best destination right now.

[-] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Valid and real. Good luck.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 4 months ago

Venture capital backed which means it will inevitably go to shit

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 29 points 4 months ago

This article vaguely hints but doesn't actually say anywhere that this is for iOS apps

[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 4 months ago

How does this even matter if phone manufacturers block apps that aren't approved by them? Forgive my ignorance, never done much mobile dev stuff

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

I suppose you can enforce additional politics into your store. Like forcing all apps being open source (like f-droid).

But everything will keep to be apple/google approved, at least until linux phone becomes more mainstream.

Until then I'm moving away from native app development, and focusing more on webapps and progressive apps.

[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah it really sucks. I was in the middle of developing an Android game and now I don't really want to. Luckily I'm working with Unreal so I can just build it for desktop distribution anyways. But still, ugh.

[-] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

You can sideload apps on iOS. There are however highly annoying limitations.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 4 months ago

Interesting news, but I'll just stick with F-Droid.

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

AltStore is for iOS.

Edit: And hopefully F-Droid will be able to continue as an option, considering the new requirements Google is putting into place.

[-] Casuallynoted@pawb.social 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is awesome but AltStore has been seriously missing several important features for years - most notably, PRs have been submitted to add support for organization dev accounts (as opposed to individual accounts), and they never get merged. In general, I haven’t seen AltStore get a meaningful update in well over a year or two.

There’s enough missing that has been in dire need of adding that it got forked into SideStore, which has that feature and tons of other missing ones, including the ability to sign apps on device which is hella convenient.