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Death to AppShare: The Marty Janetty Story

The iPhone Barbershop

AppShare and Installous have parted ways in the same retrospective manner as the much maligned WWF rockers.

Back in the hay day of the World Wrestling Federation, the Rockers, comprised of a young, outspoken Shawn Michaels and talented Marty Janetty, won championships, created a large fan base and promoted a moral goodness that only the Hulkster himself could compete with. After weeks of friction between the two, Shawn Michaels decided that he could do it better on his own. Shawn Michaels, as most would know, grew into a wrestling legend and Marty Janetty disappeared into wrestling’s “Where Are They Now” files.

Fast forward 16 years later and the “search ‘n hack” tag team of AppShare and Installous have found themselves in the same bitter situation. The collaborative efforts of AppShare (which searched and downloaded hacked apps) and Installous (which installed them) have officially come to an end.

AppShare has been discontinued in favor of Installous which has acquired all features of AppShare, save for download site selection (to download ipa’s you are now limited to the Appulous server).

The dissolution of the relationship stems from the creator’s perception that AppShare had become nothing more than an overbloated and indistinguishable Safari viewer.