InstallerApp: Put whatever apps you want on your iPhone
Here’s a great leap forward for anyone who ever wanted to run an “unauthorized” (ie not App Store approved) application on their iPhone, but wasn’t interested in jailbreaking their Apple branded handset—an application that runs on your Mac, lets you browse the available software and then install it on your iPhone. At this point, the only things missing is iPod touch compatibility (and perhaps an integrated moral compass).
Ripdev (via Macworld) has released InstallerApp ($7), a native Mac OS X application—Windows version promised “soon”—that gives users an easy download applications from Installer and Cydia directly onto your Mac, and install them on a USB tethered iPhone.
Features, requirements of InstallerApp include:
• Over 3,000 packages (ie apps) available to browse and install
• Safer Cydia app installation (ie won’t bugger your directories)
• Allows for automatic app updates via a low impact, “runs as necessary” background daemon
• Reduces iPhone data usage
• Purchasing a single license allows one to manage apps on up to three iPhones
• iPhone OS 2.x compatible, but won’t run on an iPod touch
• Requires OS X 10.5 Leopard and an Intel Mac
As with all dark side (ie hacker) creations, InstallerApp is a double-edged blade. So, yes, Ripdev is about setting the software free (baby!). Still, regardless of any intentions stated or otherwise, it’s also about ripping people off.
For example, in combination with Crackulous (breaks Apple’s App Store DRM), InstallerApp can be used to install (steal) any application without paying the developer ad infinitum without the risk or hassle of jailbreaking.
That is, InstallerApp is a “tool” in the same way handguns or cigarettes are (ie cigarettes don’t kill people, people with handguns kill tobacco company executives). Is it a tool in the same sense that peer to peer networking and file sharing are tools? These are all interesting questions that I’m going to ponder while having a (ultralight) cigarette…
What’s your take?
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March 25th, 2009
I don’t smoke. LOL
I hope they release a windows/Touch version.
I will buy it.
March 27th, 2009
i cant wait for the windows version. i will deffinately buy that. just for apps that arent in the store. not for stealing ones that i dont want to buy