Revolving around competition from the European Union DMA law, has been a thorn in Apple’s side for some time now. This law, which we can translate as the law on the digital markets of the European Union, concerns that of Apple Lightning to Type-C port made it pass. Immediately afterwards, iOS was allowed to install applications from external sources.

But so far, how to do this, Which app stores are available with which apps?their costs and limitations have always remained a question mark. The news from The Verge is a small look at both application stores and the usefulness of applications downloaded from these stores.

Emulators, copy/clipboard tools and more are on the way.

First for iPhone users in the European region The arrival of AltStore Waiting. This store, developed by Riley Testut, allows installing applications without jailbreak. Oddly enough, this store is one Nintendo emulator are delta It came out to bring it to iPhones. AltStore is currently in the process of obtaining approval from Apple.

Delta; A free application that lets you play classic games released before NES, SNES, N64 and Switch on your iPhone. You can use iCloud to flash a ROM to the emulator, or you can download and open the files directly.

But Delta isn’t the only app in the store. Apart from that, it is a copy/clipboard tool. Clamp is also available in store. This application, which costs at least $1 to use, always runs in the background. For example, when you copy something and you don’t want to send it somewhere right away, that is, you just want it to be captured, scroll down in the notification Enough. For example, if you copy an address and scroll through the notification, Clip will save it to the clipboard.

“Why can’t the number of app stores be bigger than the fingers of one hand?” If you think so, Apple makes its app stores quite expensive.

As a CTF fee, Apple charges developers on the official store annual It charges 50 cents per download of more than 1 million. But third party app store developers have to pay this per download. That is, AltStore and another application store, Mobivention. every time it is downloadeddevelopers pay Apple 50 cents.

Mobiventionoffers membership packages to overcome this. However, most users can avoid paying even the smallest amount for an application that they don’t know what’s inside.

How to install app store on iPhone?

To install third party application store on iPhone, you need to confirm a lot of things. First, open the link to install the application from the website. Then the installation message appears. But before that, go to Settings and You must allow the app. Then you go back to the beginning and click the download link again, confirm the installation and finally you can open the store and browse.

The warnings in this process and the fact that the process requires a lot of interaction will leave many users astray halfway through. We can see what stores have to offer just by looking at AltStore, but the security side of the business is just as important. What are your thoughts on this topic?