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#fdroid for iOS when?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050200/apple-third-party-app-stores-allowed-iphone-ios-europe-digital-markets-act


Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone

Apple has announced how it plans to change the rules for developers releasing iOS software in the European Union in response to the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Jon Porter (The Verge)
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Andrzej Wójcik
Andrzej Wójcik
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if I look on the following article and it is true then most likely never unless rules will be changed again https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/111818103427465516
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Markus Günther
Markus Günther
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@norbert I bet never except fdroid is getting lot of funding to pay all the fees from apple.
@Norbert Tretkowski
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Bene
Bene
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at least the F-Droid server got minimal IPA support https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/merge_requests/1413

minimal IPA support (!1413) · Merge requests · F-Droid / fdroidserver · GitLab

This brings minimal IPA support to F-Droid server. It only touches fdroid update for shipping .IPA files in F-Droid repositories. I'm building on top of some...
GitLab
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Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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There will be F-Droid for #iOS as soon as #Apple releases a #FreeSoftware version of it. F-Droid supports free software platforms. That said, F-Droid also provides all tools needed to run an #AppStore, so we welcome the use of our stack to run an app store on other platforms. There has even been externally funded contributions towards making fdroid-based app stores for iOS and a Flutter app that can be built for iOS:
* https://f-droid.org/2023/06/16/progessive-web-client.html
* https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/issues/1193

Progressive web-app client for F-Droid | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

We’ve created a prototype of a progressive web app for browsing F-Droidrepositories. It’s built withFlutter, which is really great for working in rapiddevel...
f-droid.org
#FreeSoftware #apple #ios #AppStore
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