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Introducing AltStore PAL
This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for over 10 years.
I spent months of my sophomore year working on it…yet in the end it was rejected because it did “not provide enough of an engaging and lasting iOS specific user experience that is different from that of a web browser” ( 4.2), crushing my 16-year-old self 🥲 In addition to content restrictions, the App Store also forbids certain business models — such as distributing betas “in exchange for compensation of any kind, including as a reward for crowd-sourced funding. This is unfortunate, because not only is this a proven way to monetize software in other markets, but since launching 5 years ago AltStore and Delta have been entirely funded by doing exactly this and providing pre-release access to our patrons through our Patreon.
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