Cydia to open jailbroken paid app store
Interesting story here. Cydia, the most popular Jailbroken App repository (Installer.app never really recovered from being late to the iPhone 2.0 ballgame), is planning on having a paid apps store. Apple just recently filed a motion that said it thought jailbreaking was copyright infringement and a DMCA violation so obviously this isn't something Apple would be too happy about. Plus there is that 30% of app cuts and AT&T isnt going to be happy about me buying PDANet either.
Oh, and it isn't just Cydia:
Another small company plans a store called Rock Your Phone for iPhone users who have not yet modified their devices to make it easier to download and buy unauthorized applications. A third start-up is building an online store that specializes in selling adult games for the iPhone.
It will be interesting to see how things play out. A great deal of the appeal of Jailbroken apps is that they are mostly free. On the flip side, would you pay for something that Apple could wipe out in the next firmware update?
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Ummm... Maybe a White 16GB iPhone 3G?
To date I have already purchased 3 apps that were available through Cydia. iRealSMS (and paid for upgrade to 2.0), Snapture, and PDANet. So definitely yes I am in the category that is willing to pay for apps that have features unavailable elsewhere. I think with jailbroken apps it is even more the case because it's not your typical fart app, it's phone tethering, landscape texting and searching sms, etc that is simply unavailable elsewhere and adds real value to the phone. Updating a jailbroken phone hasn't been much of an issue with the iPhone Dev team regularly releasing updates to those tools.
great point.
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Saurik should have put the commercial application framework in a new repository, and had commercial developers depend on it.
The name "Cydia" is now contaminated. Apple's battalion of undead lawyers is now mercilessly tracking anybody that smells of the project.
Apple versus Adult industry - will make an interesting battle.
(An un-written reason Flash wasn't installed?)...
Apple is facing competitions from hardware manufacturer and software jailbreak both. There are so many fake iPod/iPhone, and mac video app. They all are entering into apple market.