Hello everyone!

We are steps away from launching of our own official app publication platform. If you are developer and want to be the first to be listed on appdb, enjoy our APIs and freedom, we are welcoming you to register your interest to be in touch, when private beta will be available.

Our platform works completely independently from Apple:

• We are not using their services APIs (only ones that aren't interoperable yet due to lack of implementation on their side)
• All app data on our platform is completely separated from app data on Apple platform
• We have our own developer ID verification

This is how app marketplaces should work. Apple is trying to say that alternative app marketplace is:

 An alternative app marketplace is an iOS app from which someone can install other third-party apps. [but still originated from Apple with their resigning, having 100% monopolistic control over app distribution and taking commissions for this]

It is not an app, it is full-featured platform with it's own set of services, verification and publication requirements, just like Apple's app store. And why it should be different, right?

Apple created a market - iOS platform, they gave no choice to use any other operating system on their devices, and tries to make this market to work under their control, using their monopoly power. 

And did you know that Apple app store is not a store at all - it is an app renting platform, you do not own what you've bought - they just give you a “right to use” your apps, at the same time breaking trust chain between developer of an app and you - by resigning all apps with only one certificate.

Apple security is actually Security through obscurity, They can not remove or block any malware that already on your phone. 

With real certificates (but still currently only issued by Apple), that developers own and can revoke in case of malware detection or compromise (more than 34 million of people, generating Apple more than three billion four hundred million dollars per year via paid apple developer membership) - they implemented state-of-the art profiling and surveillance - with tracking and making decision of every app open, literally - which we will disclosure in future updates. FYI: Appstore has only around 2 million of apps - so this “closed” market is fully under Apple control and monopoly as well.

Do you wan to continue to live in a world, where almost every single tap is getting tracked by operating system developer?

As iOS is “closed” by them, such discoveries are always hidden and hard be discovered.

We believe that Apple must to play according to industry standards:

• Allow app installation from any developer, signed with special code signing certificate or key (or EV one) with optional usage of special hardware tokens, like it is done in Windows, Linux, Android and even macOS - keeping the trust chain between developer and end user; not playing with obscure security that does nothing except control, limitation of competition and hilarious Trust bugs
• Receive commissions only for services that actual Apple one's like Apple ID login, maps, if developer and users use them
• Separate their Apple Developer, App Store platform from other platforms, as developers are just developers, they aren't Apple, Google or [enter company name] developers
• Provide transparency reports what exact data is collected in operating system, with an ability to disable such collection or providing 3rd party tools to do it
• If apps installed not from Apple's, restrict their access to Apple-provided APIs or entitlements. It will not hurt “platform integrity” as they say
• Apps to be easily downloadable to be stored offline, without usage of a device

So, that's it.

Stay tuned.

Best regards, appdb team.