AltStore Plans to Launch iPhone App in Three More Countries This Year

The developers of AltStore contiguous announced that they program to marque the app disposable successful Australia, Brazil, and Japan aboriginal this year, followed by the UK adjacent year.


AltStore is besides gaining "Fediverse" support, via the ActivityPub protocol.

AltStore provides iPhone users with an alternate to Apple's built-in App Store, and it adjacent offers immoderate apps that would violate Apple's App Review Guidelines.

AltStore archetypal launched connected the iPhone in the EU past year, aft the Digital Markets Act required Apple to let alternate app stores. Australia, Brazil, Japan, and the UK are moving to instrumentality akin regulations, which would pave the mode for AltStore to motorboat successful those countries arsenic well. However, the nonstop timing could shift.

Alternative app stores person been supported connected the iPhone and iPad successful the EU since iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 were released successful April 2024. AltStore and different alternate app stores tin beryllium installed connected these devices via Safari oregon different web browser.

Apple has yet to denote oregon instrumentality enactment for alternate app stores successful Australia, Brazil, Japan, and the UK, arsenic regulations successful those countries are inactive being finalized and/or person yet to beryllium enforced. AltStore has simply announced its plans early.

In the U.S., the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Apple past year, but the lawsuit is ongoing and alternate app stores connected the iPhone stay unsupported there.
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