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--- iOS-Jailbreak-AppStore "Cydia" shuts down ---

This Friday, Jay Freeman, the maintainer of the iOS-Jailbreak-AppStore "Cydia", announced that he will shut-down his services.
"Cydia" is a app store for people that jailbreaked their iPhones and allows them to buy and download apps. Apple's AppStore doesn't allow jailbreaked apps, that's the reason it was created in 2009.

Jay Freeman, also known as "Saurik", explained that he wanted to shut down the service at the end of 2018 anyways.
Now, a recent security issue, threatening the data of all users, caused that the store no longer existed with immediate effect.
In addition to the security issue, "Cydia" was said to be no more profitable.
To calm you breakers down: Previous purchases can still be downloaded!

The software itself will continue to exist, but without a back-end for payments and stuff like that. Users are still able to do payments through third-party repositories, which already happened anyway, so that lowers the impact of the shut-down.

Just like "Cydia", other services are shutting down too.
One of the three big Cydia-repositories, ModMyi, said they wont allow any new apps and archived all existing ones.
ZodTTD and MacCiti will also be discontinued.
"Bigboss" is the only repository remaining.

Jailbreaks just lost their popularity over the last years. There's still no jailbreak for iOS 11! This shows that Apple is getting better and better at preventing jailbreaks.
On the other hand, it shows that the need for jailbreaks is not quite as high anymore and therefore the developers don't spend too much energy for breaking up iOS anymore.

Did you use Cydia, or any of the other services? Write us in the comments!

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  • 9
    5y
    Post written by @Skayo

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  • 21
    5y
    I just wouldn't buy a product that I have to crack because the manufacturer doesn't hand me over all rights to use it.
  • 12
    5y
    And that right there is why I use Android. Apple can prevent their customers from getting into their laptops and phones in both hardware and software, but that ain't the right way for me. Can't root/jailbreak the fucking thing? Fuck you! Can't see the kernel and OS sources? Fuck you!! Can't get into the fucking thing and replace components? FUCK YOU!

    And for the offended Apple fanbois, I hate Samsung too for implementing that stupid Knox thing. Motherfuckers.
  • 5
    5y
    I used to be a jailbreak/root person, but both iOS and Android reached an “openness” (or lack of extreme closure) that is more than enough for my needs 🤷🏻‍♂️
  • 13
    5y
    Aw man. My teenage years. I spent countless hours playing around with iOS. Developing themes and tweaks in Objective C++ and stuff. It was so much fun. So sad to see it go.
  • 1
    5y
    I haven’t had a need for jailbreaking since ios7/8, after that the only thing I really missed was the GBA emulator

    😏 but that’s what PC is for so 🤷‍♂️

    I did use a few themes, but they always seemed half done and buggey and constantly needing a soft restart, oh and email managers were cool.
  • 6
    5y
    In the meantime, OSX gets more and more embarrassing security holes. So Crapple gets better in restricting their users, but even worse in protecting their users from evil.
    Say what you want, but that sucks.
  • 3
    5y
    @Vake93 You must be pretty happy with what Apple is doing then. 😁😁
  • 2
    5y
    Jokes on you, I use Android 😎
  • 3
    5y
    @Fast-Nop Exactly this. Although I use the rom that came with my phone (not an entirely open source one), I've rooted it so *I* am the one who decides what happens.

    Wouldn't use a phone I didn't have full access (In the form of root/jailbreak) to.
  • 2
    5y
    @linuxxx even if I had an iJailbreak, Apple tends to remove them with future updates, so I would have to fumble around again.

    Given all the additional time effort on my side, iDevices would have to be massively cheaper than e.g. Android, but the opposite is the case.
  • 0
    5y
    Sileo finally comes into picture. Now one can jailbreak your iOS device using RootlessJB. Get it from https://rootlessjb.net/
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