AltStore today announced plans to make its iPhone app available in Australia, Brazil, and Japan later this year, followed by the UK next year. AltStore is also gaining "Fediverse" support, via the ...

Apple’s chokehold on the App Store ecosystem for iPhone apps stifles competition, according to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), so it’s now forcing the tech giant to open up to new rivals. As a ...

With iOS 17.4, Apple began supporting alternative app marketplaces in the European Union, and the first of these stores will be launching soon to give consumers new ways to install apps without having ...

The best way to install apps from outside Apple’s App Store was only made possible because Riley Testut wanted to play Pokémon on his iPhone. Testut was still in college when he started building an ...

The first third-party app marketplace, AltStore PAL, launched in the European Union on Wednesday. The App Store alternative comes from Riley Testut, the developer who got his Delta retro-game emulator ...

AltStore PAL, the alternative iOS app store available in the EU and Japan, is stepping into the social web arena. In a recent announcement, AltStore PAL revealed that users can now engage with apps ...

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The first native porn app for iPhone called "Hot Tub" may have passed notarization checks, but Apple wants everyone to know it certainly doesn't "approve" of such dangerous things on its devices. When ...

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