Is there an open source app store in development for iOS?

pexavc, 8 months ago

I guess Cydia counts as one. But it’s obviously not official/advised by Apple

kev, 9 months ago

Good luck with that Apple hate open source. They probably think its dangerous lol. Apple and Open source don’t go together.

SMillerNL, 9 months ago

What about WebKit? Or LLVM ?

elouboub, 9 months ago

WebKit was forked from a project made by the people who made KDE 4 years after its inception and LLVM was made at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to which Apple contributed 5 years later.

They can take much credit for HLS though (which isn't code, but a spec).

Not sure how they fare in the opensource world now.

SMillerNL, 9 months ago

Sure, didn’t mean to say they invented it. They are both open source projects that Apple clearly didn’t hate though. Apple seems to go with Open Source pretty well whenever they think it suits them.

elouboub, 9 months ago

Apple has to open their OS to third party stores due to EU laws in 2024. They are "reportedly" working on it. And there are jailbreak app stores out there:

• cydia
• xabsi
• iosHaven
• appzule
• appvalley
• sidestore

Even microsoft is working on one and so is stepapp for europe.

ProtonBadger, 9 months ago

They don't hate it, they use it extensively in their operating systems and sometimes publish open source projects like Darwin and Swift. They also have some large open source areas on Github and there is the opensource.apple.com website.

It would be more correct to say they pick the license (open or not) for their projects depending upon what they think their business needs, most often it's closed source but not always. They also use a lot of open source code themselves and sometimes contribute back. Also they tend to avoid GPL/LGPL type licenses though and prefer Apache/MIT/etc.

kev, 9 months ago

Yeah just like Red Hat , I know know they are greatest company in the world.