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Cydia was the first alternate app store.

by tdsanchez 2y ago

EcommerceFlow 2y ago
I wonder if Cydia would be allowed on the new alternative app marketplace...
- pfg_ 2y ago
  Cydia installs deb packages which can modify system files. The EU method only allows installation of signed .ipa apps
aptgetrekt 2y ago
*Cydia was the first app store [on iPhones]
lantonmills 2y ago
You're forgetting Installer.app, which predated Cydia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installer.app https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installer.app
- saurik 2y ago
  (I'd argue that wasn't a "store".)
  - broodbucket 2y ago
    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"?
    - saurik 2y ago
      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.)
      - skyyler 2y ago
        https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/store#Noun 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
      - sureglymop 2y ago
        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.
aprilnya 2y ago
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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Cydia was the first alternate app store.

EcommerceFlow 2y ago

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

pfg_ 2y ago
Cydia installs deb packages which can modify system files. The EU method only allows installation of signed .ipa apps

aptgetrekt 2y ago

*Cydia was the first app store [on iPhones]

lantonmills 2y ago

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

saurik 2y ago
(I'd argue that wasn't a "store".)
- broodbucket 2y ago
  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"?
  - saurik 2y ago
    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.)
    - skyyler 2y ago
      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/store#Noun 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
    - sureglymop 2y ago
      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.

aprilnya 2y ago

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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