360 MacDev: Jay "saurik" Freeman on the jailbreak store for Mac apps
When it comes to jailbreaking, there's probably no name as familiar to the development community than that of Jay "saurik" Freeman. Jay is the brain behind the Cydia App Store, and this morning he gave the attendees of 360|MacDev an overview of his upcoming jailbreak store for Mac OS X, cycript, and Cydia Substrate.
Currently, Cydia Installer has been used by about 10% of all iPhone users, or about 10 million devices. There are well over 30,000 packages available for iOS, and a lot of open source material can be downloaded from Cydia. He refers to Cydia as a store for things that are not apps, but extensions of what iOS devices can do.
Freeman felt that the same type of store would be useful for Mac OS X devices; the result is a Mac Cydia, which will be available "within weeks." With today's news that the Mac App Store will not support in-app purchases, something that is critical to the freemium app model that is so successful in the iOS world, a Mac Cydia might be just the web store for a number of Mac developers.
Before discussing the Mac Cydia, however, Freeman spent quite a while taking Apple to task for their horrible developer documentation and for the restrictions that are common in the Apple development world. He foresees many of Apple's restrictions moving to the Mac App Store.
Developers who are interested in getting their products into Mac Cydia were told to contact an employee at patrick at saurikit.com for further details.
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When it comes to jailbreaking, there's probably no name as familiar to the development community than that of Jay "saurik" Freeman. Jay is...
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saurik is sexy.
-mitch
"It's bad enough that Cydia threatens the security of every iPhone out there with their jailbreaks"
Sometimes I get the distinct impression someone is a bell end.
Freeman has a lot more going on upstairs than the average poster on this forum. If he says he's opening up a jailbreak store for the Mac, I'll be checking in to see what is offered.
December 12 2010 at 12:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyF***(#*$(*# Cydia haters and Jay Freeman haters, Cydia is the best thing invented after iPhone :P ANYWAYS this Cydia for Mac will be awesome and I would not be able to wait to use it!!!!
Now about the beard lol I'll buy a razor for you if you want ;) keep up the work man
Jay,
I have never understood it either. But this forum is full of people who get all riled up whenever there is a mention of jailbreaking on the iphone. Give it a break people. No one is gonna force you to install cydia on your iOS or MacOS device.
You all have a right to not like the store or jailbreaking in general. But just move on and don't read the stories. The rest of us, who are interested in freeing our devices, are glad for the stories about jailbreaking. Frankly, I think most of you must have some sort of personality disorder -- why would you care what anyone else does with their device?
I don't understand why the people in the comments are having a hard time grasping this, but the point is to provide a market for the kinds of "modifications to third party software" that people like writing on jailbroken iPhones, and to allow people to install those modifications in a way that reasonably makes sense. I have no clue why people are trying to liken this to Fink (the APT/dpkg already existing, comment), or what this possibly has to do with AppBodega (Cydia is not an App Store: you don't get "apps" from Cydia, you get cool hacks). *sigh*
December 10 2010 at 11:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAs I've pointed out previously, we've HAD a "Cydia for the Mac". It was called "ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/".
December 10 2010 at 10:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat shirt isn't funny. It's like Bill Gates wearing a shirt with a picture of a BSoD.
December 10 2010 at 9:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo I'm going to follow the guidance of this scumwad on everything he tells us to do. Great. It's bad enough that Cydia threatens the security of every iPhone out there with their jailbreaks. And now he wants to do this to the Mac.
I need jerks like this guy like a hole in my head.
Remember, he knows more than you do. Just ask him. So who am I to trust? This really handsome guy or Steve Jobs? The answer for me is self-evident.
"It's bad enough that Cydia threatens the security of every iPhone out there with their jailbreaks"
Please tell me you're a troll.
Unnecessary, just how he must feel about a razor.
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