A third-party "App Store" that supports iPhone sideloading really exists?

AltStore allows limited sideloading of iPhone apps

Over 300,000 monthly active users

Due to user privacy and security concerns, Apple has been reluctant to open the app sideloading function of iOS devices to third-party app stores. Officials insist that this poses a malware risk and that current policies do not allow unapproved apps to run on iPhones. Even so, developer Riley Testut has been trying to find a breakthrough since 2019. Fast Company said that since its launch three years ago, AltSotre has exceeded 1.5 million downloads.

AltStore has more than 300,000 monthly active users, and nearly 6,000 of them support Testut on the Patreon platform (paying more than $14,500 for its full-time service). Once installed, AltStore will allow users to add applications made by Testut and will be able to import usable resources they find elsewhere with relative freedom (as long as they use the .ipa wrapper format). Here, the de-advertised version of the SNS app, the classic game simulator app, is very popular.

In fact, AltStore flexibly applies the side-load channel reserved by Apple's Xcode development platform to allow developers to load unfinished apps directly onto their iPhones. Testut said: "When Apple first announced this feature in 2015, we wondered if we could find some workaround that would be able to sideload apps to iOS devices using only Apple ID, and then step by step expand AltStore into a near-perfect overall solution."

Apple Insider said that some staff have been using the AltStore since its debut, confirming that AltStore does work well. However, AltStore is also more critical about application support itself, because Testut cannot bypass Apple's official restrictions.

Finally, Testut emphasizes that there are still considerable risks associated with sideloading. As a tool, AltServer itself is not good or bad. The good news is that Testut says it intends to build a more secure mechanism to ensure that applications that are sideloaded through AltServer are not mixed with malicious content.

Xiaomi Mi 12 series new products into the network

Or it will be an upgraded version of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro

Recently, a model of 2207122MC of Xiaomi mysterious appearance to obtain the network access permission, according to @ digital chat station revealed, this mysterious new machine codename is L2M. Considering that the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is codenamed L2, the new machine codenamed L2M should be an upgraded version of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, which may be named Xiaomi 12S Pro, or will be Xiaomi's ultra-high-end flagship.

According to media reports, it should be equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus flagship processor, this chip uses TSMC 4nm process, composed of super-core Cortex X2, large-core Cortex A710 and small-core Cortex A510, the CPU frequency is 2.99GHz, the GPU has a slight upgrade, and the energy efficiency ratio is better than that of Snapdragon 8.

In addition, this high-end flagship should also use the LTPO 2.0 screen, which has been first installed on the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro. Based on the second generation of LTPO materials, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro can achieve an adaptive refresh rate of 1-120Hz, giving full play to the low power characteristics of LTPO, which intelligently matches the optimal refresh rate for different content and operations to avoid additional power consumption caused by invalid screen refresh.

Of course, parameters such as 100-watt fast charging, large-capacity batteries, flagship images and other parameters will not be absent, and new products are expected to appear around June.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 / Flip 4 exposure

It is equipped with TSMC version of Snapdragon 8 Plus chip

Samsung's next batch of foldable phones will be launched in mid-August, namely the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Flip 4. The revelations about these two new folding screen machines have been emerging endlessly, indicating that Samsung will continue to bet heavily on this series of products. According to Ice universe's latest revelations on Twitter, he can confirm that the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Flip 4 will be equipped with upgraded processors - TSMC's Snapdragon 8 Plus chip.

Although Qualcomm has not yet announced this processor, this processor, as Qualcomm's flagship chip in the middle of the year, uses TSMC foundry, and is very worth looking forward to in terms of energy efficiency and temperature control. Ice universe doesn't mention the Exynos 2200 Plus, which is the same level as the Snapdragon 8 Plus, and seems to imply that the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Flip 4 will only have Snapdragon versions.

But it makes sense that Samsung would do so. It is reported that there was an overheating problem in the early days of the Galaxy S22 series, and Samsung had to reduce the performance of the mobile phone. Although the overheating problem has now been solved, the operation of reducing performance has made Samsung the target of public criticism, so Samsung has promised to improve the Exynos SoC in Galaxy phones.

The Galaxy S22 model affected by the speed reduction is mainly a model that uses Exynos 2200 chip, and although the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 model also has the problem of overheating and slowing down, the impact is not as obvious as the Exynos 2200. If you choose the Snapdragon 8 Plus directly on the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Flip 4 models, you can avoid problems similar to the Galaxy S22 series.

Nvidia was fined $5.5 million

Failure to disclose the impact of "mining"

According to foreign media reports, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) weekly indicated that Nvidia has agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle the company's civil charges of not fully disclosing the impact of cryptocurrency mining on its gaming business.

The SEC reportedly said in a statement that while there was information that the growth in sales in Nvidia's gaming space was driven in part by cryptocurrency mining, Nvidia's failure to disclose cryptocurrency mining was a "significant factor" in its revenue growth in consecutive quarters in fiscal 2018.

The SEC also noted that Nvidia has made statements about how other parts of its business are driven by cryptocurrency demand, but gives the impression that the gaming business has not been significantly affected by cryptocurrency mining. The SEC believes that Nvidia's omission of important information about the growth of the gaming business is misleading.

It is reported that the allegations stem from Nvidia's financial report for fiscal 2018. The SEC noted that the company saw an explosion in cryptocurrency mining-related sales in 2017, when ETH's returns were higher than normal expectations.

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