Waiting for the Installer for iPhone 2.0
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone running the 2.0 firmware, you’ve currently just got the Cydia application for installing new apps, not the old, familiar Installer app that was the far more ‘mainstream’ option up through firmware 1.1.4.
Good news if you’re hankering for Installer though - an update last week on the RiP Dev blog sounds very positive:
Hi folks! Many of you are wondering what’s up with Installer 4. No, we haven’t slowed down the work on it, and are currently in the final stages of hooking the GUI to the back-end. We will be contacting the authors of the major repositories in a few days to invite them into the testing process and to prepare for the upcoming repository changes.
Installer Kicks App Store’s Arse?
So hopefully we are not far off seeing Installer released for iPhone 2.0 - and it’s looking awfully good in the preview screenshots like the one above. Check out more of them HERE.
After having spent a few weeks with the App Store now, I have to say the content of it (i.e. the number of cool apps) is very impressive. But … the performance, the actual working of the App Store is not so great. I’d say Installer kicked its butt in working solidly and just doing its job reliably.
I say that because I just can’t recall Installer crashing very much, if at all. The App Store (on both a V1 and a 3G model) is much more flaky, for me at least. It regularly crashes and individual installs hang up for ridiculous amounts of time, with no ability to stop or pause them. When an install would fail on Installer it would fail quickly and decisively, would announce its failure, and let you retry or just get on with something else.
Apple get lots of things very, very right on the iPhone - no doubt about that, but in this area, I think they could still learn a thing or five from the guys who develop Installer …
via http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/2008/07/30/installer-for-iphone-20-coming-soon-better-than-app-store/#more-4085