iPhone Winterboarder

It look like AppDowner is back from the ashes of 2008.  Available in beta “soon”, AppDowner will be compatible with iPhone 3.0 devices, so what’s the deal?

“The concept of appDowner has changed slightly, from being a simple ’smart’ BitTorrent application to a full on App Store replacement,” explains Alec.

“No longer will you have to remember and type in the URL to your torrent file, simply click the “Store” tab on appDowner, and you’ll be brought to a beautiful interface designed by Miles (which isn’t quite ready to be shown off yet, but he assures us that it will be very, very soon!) which will allow you to search and find the apps you’re looking for.”

Unlike the official App Store, there will no iTunes-like approval process to get your own applications onto the AppDowner store, with Alec promising that submissions to the system will be accepted within a week.

While BitTorrent is employed to serve apps to the user, the AppDowner torrent client can also be used for non-appDowner downloads also.

Now what nobody is asking themselves, is how is this AppDowner store going to manage to sqeeze into the market.  Knowing Apple stance on competitions, theres is no way in hell AppDowner is going to make it through the review process and on to the AppStore.

At the same time Cydia, Icy, and Cryptes installers are working on their own versions of an AppStore, so the door is closed there too, and almost forgot about Rock Your Phone which comes with it’’s ownjailbreak in order to use it.   Even if this AppDowner app is going to be perfect and deliver on what the developer promises, it’’s goint to take an act of god to make it to the market and be a hit with the users.

It sounds pessimistic, but it is going to be an uphill battle and I wish them all the best.

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