The creators of Cydia are looking at creating a rival application to the app store for the “jail-broken” iPhone Handset. At the moment, Apple control what can be downloaded onto their phones through the app store, thereby reducing the chances of bugs or viruses causing problems to the phone.
Despite the security this creates, it also restricts some things that the phone can do – which is why quite a few users have unlocked (“jail-broken”) their iPhone’s. A jailbroken iPhone does allow people to install different things and to use the phone on other networks, and it does stop them from doing some of the official things like using the app store.
So at the moment it’s a case of jail-broken users scanning the market to find applications to do what they want their phone to do.
So the market gap is now being filled by Jay Freeman (Cydia creator) who is creating this new application.
However, the next problem will be Apple’s counter move – developing this application will grab their attention as it is very similar to their app store, and as it will be for jail-broken iPhones, Apple could lose money. No company likes those words, so Apple will sit up and pay attention – what will they do?
Putting that aside, will this application be a good thing or a bad thing?
On the good side, it allows jailbroken iPhone users easier access to software and to make the most of their phone.
On the bad side, it may mean Apple will take stronger steps to restrict their phones from being jailbroken and re-lock jail-broken device.
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