Comments on: appDowner: A BitTorrent Powered iPhone App Store

By: Joy Lunker

Joy Lunker — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:49:39 +0000

Here ya go… took 2 mins to download :)
http://www.zoomtorrents.com/?file=appdowner_beta_version2.tar.gz

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Mac+ » App Store ganha concorrente baseado em BitTorrent — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:18:32 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:08:56 +0000

Apple sucks! Their empire is a totalitarian regime. They recently rejected a Commodore 64 emulator for no sensible reason after semi-preapproving it.

http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/20/full-commodore-64-emulator-rejected-from-app-store/
http://gizmodo.com/5298675/fully-licensed-commodore-64-emulator-rejected-by-apple-app-store
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/996/996663p1.html?RSSwhen2009-06-22_043500&RSSid=996663

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appDowner: uma app store para o iPhone movida a torrents | Remixtures — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:56:21 +0000

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By: Music Ally | Blog Archive » And now… the first BitTorrent iPhone app store

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:56:13 +0000

[...] isn’t the first unsanctioned iPhone application store, but it’s the first one to use BitTorrent technology. It’s actually an iPhone app, too, which can be used to download other apps, or any content [...]

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Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 28th - The zeitgeist daily — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:47:31 +0000

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By: Roflcerofthelawl

Roflcerofthelawl — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:35:59 +0000

I have recently jailbroken my iPhone 3G pretty easily and installing anything cracked is a piece of cake and relatively fast. This application has alot of work cut out for itself if it’s going to compare to appulous as far as downloading things.

By: CallMeRon

CallMeRon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:34:19 +0000

That’s correct, masquerade. But there will be no restrictions, meaning that any app you create under a free license can be put on appDowner.

By: masquerade

masquerade — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:37:28 +0000

i guess some of the writers of the commands missed the point: appDowner is not there to download pirated/cracked iPhone apps. Its an equivalent of the AppStore with its own apps.

(Please correct me if im wrong)

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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:57:00 +0000

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By: R

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:07:12 +0000

@15 – Sean, stop trying to fulfil your life with an iPhone because you have a small cock.

It’s just a phone, a piece of technology running Unix..

Personally I found the iPhone and the software very restrictive… stuff like sending files over Bluetooth is something not possible with an iPhone.. but yet something I can happily do with my Nokia N95 (and most other phones).

Then you have upgrading to the 3.0 Firmware, I had to upgrade an iPhone and it bricked itself, I had to manually restore back to the 2.2.1 firmware. Again, I’ve updated my N95 several times with the Nokia Updater, and my phone has never bricked itself.

The iphone is pretty shit with restrictive fixed contracts. Anyone like Sean claiming it’s the next coming of god is a dick.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:12:56 +0000

Anyone that says the iPhone sucks is either very very ignorant or can’t afford one. That is a fact. I would NEVER want to use any other phone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:14:26 +0000

Adam Savage gets $11,000 AT&T bill for a “few hours of web surfing in Canada”

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/26/adam-savage-gets-110.html

Seriously, this is why metered plans don’t work and using cellphones(or mobiles if you prefer) over network carriers doesn’t work and will not be attractive to many, but when phones are allowed to access other networks that would be great.

That is why I have to say that although is great that the software is already here the hardware is not, still waiting for the android thingy to take off though :)

By: Sakurina

Sakurina — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:21:16 +0000

Has it not occurred to anyone that for this to work, someone needs to be seeding?

If the author makes appDowner run in the background, there will be seeders, along with a sudden rise in people whining that their battery lasts 5 seconds.

If the author doesn’t make appDowner run in the background, there will be no seeders, so you’d have no reason to use it over other “App Store alternatives”.

This is a lose-lose situation in either case. This can’t possibly work.

Also, anyone who claims this is “the most beautiful application repository on the market” should think about getting their eyes checked. Look at the screenshot; even people with bad taste in UI design can admit that’s one of the most hideous apps out there.

By: James

James — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:52:18 +0000

Let’s think logically why it won’t work:
1. Battery issues. There’s no way you could download ANYTHING of significance while on the road.
2. Connection issues. We all know ATT 3G isn’t any good.
3. It has it’s own DAMN protocol. One flip of a switch and ATT can block it completely.

Assuming you’re on wifi then:
1. Battery issues still. And if you’re at home on your wifi network, why the HELL would you download a torrent on your phone instead of your PC?

Now here’s why it won’t as an alternative for Apple App Store/Cydia/Icy/Appulous either:
1. There are MANY apps the size of torrent files. Why would you want to download a torrent file then another file the same size?
2. It still won’t work for large files for the reasons listed above.

By: Crynsos

Crynsos — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:44:06 +0000

“…new and unqiue player…” >> new and unique player

Nice to hear this anyways, sounds like there will be some more unusual apps appearing soon, stuff that the official appstore would never allow…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:38:18 +0000

Good there isn’t going to be an approval process. I’m sure some good apps apple rejects will show up there, I’ll be using appDowner.

http://www.disabledtech.info/

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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:28:46 +0000

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By: enus

enus — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:45:09 +0000

Its a good way to get fringe apps on your iPhone. The idea of using Bittorrent on a wifi or 3G network is terrible though. Bittorrent is already a network resource hog, so to unleash that on a fragile network is only going to cause problems for other 3G or WiFi users. You’re not sharing 700MB movies, these apps that are just a few megabytes. You can host the apps on a web host for $10 a month.

By: wonderwhy-er

wonderwhy-er — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:01:08 +0000

Hah sounds very cool. May be it’s time to jailbreak mine.