You may not heard of Jay Freeman. But as a jailbroken iPhone user, you should know Cydia, an alternative to the official App Store for downloading iPhone applications. And, Jay Freeman is the man behind Cydia. Today, he makes another milestone for Cydia and opens up Cydia Store that lets you purchase apps from it.
Why another iPhone App Store? Something you may not know is that not all iPhone developers can put up their crafted applications and sells it on App Store. Apple censors every iPhone application before it can show up on the store. If the application violates any restriction, the app gets buried. And, that’s why you’ll never see iPhone application like “Cycorder” that lets iPhone capture video or applications that lets turns iPhone as 3G modem.
However, Cydia does not impose tight restriction. And, the grand plan of Cydia Store is to let developers to sell hundreds of iPhone apps that cannot make into App Store. The recent article from The Wall Street Journal has a coverage on the Cydia Store. Quoted from the article, Jay Freeman mentioned that,
“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.”
Yes, we like choice and that’s one of the great reason to jailbreak iPhone. And, I believe competition is good. Two stores is definitely better than one.
Now, Cydia Store is already opened for business. And, as of now only one jailbreak app called Cyntact is available for purchase on the Cydia Store.
I believe more apps will come soon. Anyway, I’ll buy this 1st application to show my support to Cydia Store. Stay tuned. I’ll write up a post about it in later post.
Congratulation to Jay Freeman for the grand opening of Cydia Store!
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hi I just purchased cybtact through cydia using amazon. It was seamless. Great app. Support cydia all the way
@Nam,
Yes, it worth the money! Simple but a great app.