The European Union Digital Markets Law has brought a series of changes to the Apple Inimaginable ecosystem until recently. Among them, The opening of iOS to third -party application storesso that iPhone users in Europe have other options apart from the App Store Officer of Apple. And it has been one of these, ALTSTORE PALthe one that has broken a new barrier with The distribution of the first porn application on iPhone.
Hot tub it’s a ‘Adult content browser’ that allows access to the best known porn websites, avoiding advertisements, trackers and spam. The app has overcome Apple’s notarial certification review, safety and functionality threats. If an application meets the certification requirements, Apple must allow its distribution through third -party stores. So Hot Tub is the first porn app that Apple is approved, although it has been by legal obligation and not for pleasure.
As the company explains on its support page, third -party store apps’ are subjected to A certification process to ensure that each application meets the integrity standards of the base platformbut it depends on each distributor of alternative applications to review the applications according to their own processes and policies’.
Hot Tub, in any case, It is not visible in Altstore Pal by default And it is not a recommended source, so ‘You must explicitly add your source Before it appears in Altstore Pal, as well as most Altstore applications. This means that you will only see if you want, ‘explained the third party store in Threads.
App Store continues with its usual policy on this issue, prohibiting ‘openly sexual or pornographic material’. Steve Jobs He expressed himself on one occasion on this issue, stating that Apple has ‘The moral responsibility of maintaining pornography outside the iPhone’ and that people looking for such applications should ‘Buy an Android phone’.
Peter ajemianApple spokesman, explained in a statement to the media against the company: ‘We are deep Concerned about safety risks that hardcore porn apps of this type create for EU users, especially for children. This application and other similar They will undermine consumers and confidence in our ecosystemthat we have worked for more than a decade to make it the best in the world. Contrary to the false statements made by the Marketplace developer, we certainly do not approve this application and we would never offer it in our App Store. The truth is that The European Commission requires us to allow it to be distributed by market operators such as Altstore and Epic, which may not share our concerns for user safety. ‘
Altstore Pal was one of the first alternative application stores in launching in Europe. It was launched in April 2024 and includes applications such as Game emulatorsprohibited in the App Store, Torrents software that you will not find in the official Apple store, and even titles such as Fortnite of Epic Games.