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Developers Looking to Set Up Alternatives To Apple's App Store
TechDirt is reporting that in response to the frustrations with Apple's app store dictatorship, a few developers are looking to set up their own alternative app stores. Alternate app stores would only work on jailbroken phones, making their adoption scope limited, so the question is whether Apple will go after these start ups on the legal battlefield. "Apple, which collects a 30% commission from sellers on its store, doesn't break out the site's revenue. Brokerage firm Piper Jaffray estimates the site generated about $150 million in sales last year and projects total sales will grow to $800 million this year. Apple did not respond to requests for comment. But it has said in the past that with the iPhone it was trying to strike a balance between a closed device like the iPod and an open device like the PC."
I could see how it might look that way to someone if they spent all their time like you downloading gay porn and spanking the monkey raw. The rest of us don't see that. Sorry.
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A jailbroken iPhone with Cydia installed is 1 app away from being a fully functional Unix box.
And if you don't already know which app it is, I'm not going to tell you (because you wouldn't want advice from queers and poseurs anyway).
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