Jay Freeman, the developer behind Cydia, has announced that he plans to launch a new application store for the iPhone called Cydia Store. Cydia already contains paid applications, but developers must use their own means to collect payment. The Cydia Store would basically create a streamlined payment system.
Cydia is a means for developers to distribute applications for the iPhone, specifically applications created for jailbroken iPhones, that wouldn’t normally be allowed at Apple’s App Store. Many developers with applications that have been rejected because of Apple’s stringent iPhone SDK turn to Cydia.
Freeman’s store will allow any application to be distributed at a small fee. Freeman has said that the sales commission collected will be on par with Apple’s or even less.
According to the Wall Street Journal article, Freeman has already hired a lawyer just in case Apple isn’t too pleased with his new idea:
“The overworking goal is to provide choice,” he says. “It’s understandable that [Apple] wants to control things, but it has been very limiting for developers and users.”
This just may be the nudge that Apple needed to start legally going after the jailbreak community.
According to Jay Freeman’s most recent Twitter update, there will be a Cydia update late this evening that will have one package “for sale.” Keep an eye out.
UPDATE: Jay Freeman has been kind enough to inform us that tonight’s package is just the first of many. Numerous developers are on board with the idea, but Freeman wants to take it slowly to be certain everything goes as planned. More packages will be made available for sale as deals are finalized.
[via Cult of Mac]
Well, after the Cydia update now iTunes wants me to type in my username AND password. So in others words very odd behaviour. This is what I would do if I wanted to steal your username/password combination so immediatly sent up red flags.
I don’t KNOW that this is what’s happening, and it probably isn’t, but you don’t do stuff like that. I’ve wiped my phone because I don’t trust it. He’s going to have to make sure it’s trust worthy. Erasing my iTunes username thus making me type it in again (to get into the apple store, not Cydia) makes your program look like a username/password sniffer.
same problem
why does i tunes stick its nose in
thanks