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Setapp is planning to be the first third-party app store for iOS devices
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I hope they have time traveling technology to go with that App Store, because they’re a decade and a half or so late if they want to be the first 3rd party App Store for the iPhone. Off the top of my head I could name about a dozen that already exist or have existed in the past.
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first non-jailbreak one. i was jailbroken from the first iphone days, before chris even existed. but saurik definitely upped the game.
There are third party app stores? I thought that wasn't possible until 2024.
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@Ilikecheese it’s been possible since the first year of iphone, if you jailbreak. indeed, a lot of new features iphone got over the years were first found in jailbreak tweaks and apps.
there are a handful from the jailbreaking days but most people didn't bother because most of the time they were gone with the next ios-update.
If you had Cydia (which basically came with every jailbreak) you had a third party app store. The apple app store was literally inspired by it.
So that's going to change in 2024. They legally won't be able to get kicked off iOS anymore and no jailbreak will be necessary.