{"id":43564,"date":"2024-06-06T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43564"},"modified":"2024-06-06T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:17:46","slug":"marketplacekit-license-renewal-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/06\/marketplacekit-license-renewal-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"MarketplaceKit License Renewal Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mysk_co\/status\/1797994677851062292\">Mysk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mysk_co\/status\/1797994677851062292\"><p>Several iOS apps installed from alternative marketplaces stopped working after some time. Some are grayed out and can&rsquo;t be opened or deleted. Others crash on launch because MarketplaceKit can&rsquo;t renew the license. How would users recover their data when apps end up like this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_bilous\/status\/1798013285981409567\">Oleksandr Bilous<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_bilous\/status\/1798013285981409567\">\n<p>Technically, apps doesn&rsquo;t crash, they are just terminated due to invalid license. But for me this UX is definitely looks like crash and users associated behaviour with crash on launch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m not sure whose bug this is, but the system is way more complicated than it needs to be, which creates more opportunities for problems.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/appdb_official\/status\/1798054640271122918\">appdb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/appdb_official\/status\/1798054640271122918\"><p>All this is done by Apple just to get a &ldquo;checkmark&rdquo; for &ldquo;compliance&rdquo;. They aren&rsquo;t interested in this in any way. Only independence from Apple allows customers to install apps outside their app store without any problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/ios-17-5-fixes-client_id-but-breaks-app-marketplaces\/\">iOS 17.5 &ldquo;Fixes&rdquo; client_id But Breaks App Marketplaces<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/02\/altstore-pal\/\">AltStore PAL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/08\/app-marketplaces-will-stop-working-if-you-travel-outside-the-eu\/\">App Marketplaces Will Stop Working If You Travel Outside the EU<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysk: Several iOS apps installed from alternative marketplaces stopped working after some time. Some are grayed out and can&rsquo;t be opened or deleted. Others crash on launch because MarketplaceKit can&rsquo;t renew the license. How would users recover their data when apps end up like this? Oleksandr Bilous: Technically, apps doesn&rsquo;t crash, they are just terminated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-06-06T18:10:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"3bf8528e-2bd8-453c-9254-28702d800d1b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-06-06T18:10:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AO_hSjivYRTySVChwLYANGw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1878,2085,2542,1016,31,2321,1466],"class_list":["post-43564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-altstore","tag-antitrust","tag-app-marketplaces","tag-datacide","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-setapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43565,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43564\/revisions\/43565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}