Apple has always marked a series of red lines in its ecosystem and in its app store, the App Store. In fact, the goal of jailbreaking has generally been to try to bypass these controls to perform actions contrary to what Apple allowed as standard on its devices. However, jailbreaking has diminished over time and is now the European Union Digital Markets Act and Apple’s own lead, sometimes forced, which pushes the red lines away from the usual positions. The European Union’s alternative app stores have created First torrent clients arrive on iOS and iPadOS, something that until a few months ago This was a clear restriction for Apple on its devices.
Digital Markets Act Allows Torrents to Arrive on iOS
Apple’s policies regarding the App Store have always been a controversial topic for many developers and large companies like Epic Games. One of the clearest restrictions regarding the App Store was the Torrent clients banned from Big Apple app store. This restriction was invoked for three reasons: the copyright infringement of much of the content downloaded via torrents (which is completely outside of Apple’s control), the security and user experience that could be violated after installing malware in a torrent download, and finally, the App Store’s own policies that customers would not comply with.
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However, the entry into force of the European Union Digital Markets Act has repeatedly put Apple on the tightrope by launching major updates to its ecosystems. Among these changes are the admission and support of third party app stores which allow you to install apps outside the App Store.
This has done It’s harder for Apple to control third-party app stores. This means that there is bypass to the restrictive policies of the App Store. A clear example is the emergence of torrent client to alternative app stores like AltStore, as The Verge reported over the weekend. Some of these clients are known as iTorrent or qBitControl.
We’ll see what Apple’s moves are in the coming weeks, but with the Digital Markets Act in full force and with iOS 17.4 and subsequent updates on the table, Apple’s control is quite limited.
