30% Apple

[Chris O'Connell]

Hi Jack,

Jailbreaking the iphone will give you the ability to install apps not
sold/distributed in the App Store.

Unfortunately, and mostly because jailbreaking is not mainstream, the apps
distributed to a jailbroken phone aren't as smooth running (if they run at
all) as those found in the App Store.

For example, I jailbroke my iphone a few months ago and found that because
the firmware version was too high on my phone many of the apps (the terminal
command prompt, wifi hotspot) simply wouldn't load or in some cases wouldn't
even install.

Because there is no real competition among app stores using the iPhone a lot
of the 3rd party apps aren't very polished.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Jack Coats <jack-rp9/bkPP+cDYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Just curious, is it possible to get apps to install on an iPhone from
> a non-Apple store?
> If so, can the non-Apple store be made the default store when looking for
> apps?
>
> If not, it looks like Apple is both selling the razor and the blades
> (for those that
> don't know this is referring back to Gillette's old technique of
> giving away razors then
> selling the proprietary blades, back in the 'old days').
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