Cydia has beenthe hubof the iPhone gray market for some time now , but developer Jay Freeman is planning on release the jailbroken app manager into a dubiously legitimate competition to the App Store .
https://gizmodo.com/the-week-in-iphone-apps-essential-jailbreak-apps-5152714
Converting Cydia into a proper applications programme storage wo n’t be complicated , and more or less amounts to Freeman contribute a centralised payment service to the software . His competitive ambitions , though , are n’t so insidious : Hetold the WSJthat “ the overworking goal is to provide choice ” and that he plans on match or tucker Apple ’s commissioning for downloaded apps .
pay apps are presently useable in Cydia , but leverage has to be arranged on an app - by - app basis , usually through unwieldy product key outline or PayPal . While a centralized Cydia payment system would make buying apps such as Snapture and PDAnet simpler and could breed innovation for potentially utilitarian nonsanctioned apps , but it also offer a exclusive , unified target for Apple should they decide to start hurling lawyer at the jailbreak scene . Though the company has n’t specifically respond to this announcement , it ’d be naive to suppose they wo n’t : in effect , Freeman , who has already engage a lawyer , has just herald that he plans on make money on a process that Appleclaimed to be totally illegaljust a few week ago . Good fate ? [ WSJviaCult of Mac ]
https://gizmodo.com/apple-says-jailbreaking-iphones-is-illegal-dammit-5153101
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