Cydia App Store, the Place to Get Jailbroken and Unauthorized iPhone Apps
Jay Freeman, the developer behind the Cydia jailbroken app manager, plans to take his software product one step further and turn it into a direct competitor for Apple’s iTunes App Store. For those of you that are not familiar with Cydia, here is a brief explanation: Cydia allows you to properly manage all of your jailbroken iPhone apps, as well as track down other jailbroken apps that are available out there.
The Cydia app manager currently allows you to find free and paid jailbroken iPhone apps. The thing is that if you want to purchase such an app, you have to pay for them via PayPal and then use keys to unlock the app. As long as Jay Freeman adds a centralized payment service to Cydia, the job of turning it into a proper competitor for the official App Store is pretty much done.
According to Jay Freeman, his goal is not to harm Apple and the official App Store, but to “provide choice” since Apple’s control and restrictions (see South Park app example) have proven to be “very limiting for developers and users.” But since Apple has made it very clear that it does not want people to jailbreak the iPhone and has stated that in doing so you are breaking the law (Digital Millennium Copyright Act violation and copyright infringement to be more precise), Jay Freeman is expecting some sort of reaction on the part of Apple, and not the “pat on the back” kind. Consequently Jay Freeman has already hired himself a lawyer and is expecting Apple to take legal action against him.
For the time being Apple has not issued an official statement, nor has it taken any action against Jay Freeman or Cydia. According to Aaron Perzanowski, a professor specializing in digital copyright law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, even if Apple were to do so, this is such an uncharted legal territory that it would have serious problems in getting their point of view across. Not to mention the fact that the DMCA gives app developers a “pretty good” cover against legal actions.
Tags: Apple, iTunes, App Store, Cydia
The Cydia app manager currently allows you to find free and paid jailbroken iPhone apps. The thing is that if you want to purchase such an app, you have to pay for them via PayPal and then use keys to unlock the app. As long as Jay Freeman adds a centralized payment service to Cydia, the job of turning it into a proper competitor for the official App Store is pretty much done.
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According to Jay Freeman, his goal is not to harm Apple and the official App Store, but to “provide choice” since Apple’s control and restrictions (see South Park app example) have proven to be “very limiting for developers and users.” But since Apple has made it very clear that it does not want people to jailbreak the iPhone and has stated that in doing so you are breaking the law (Digital Millennium Copyright Act violation and copyright infringement to be more precise), Jay Freeman is expecting some sort of reaction on the part of Apple, and not the “pat on the back” kind. Consequently Jay Freeman has already hired himself a lawyer and is expecting Apple to take legal action against him.
For the time being Apple has not issued an official statement, nor has it taken any action against Jay Freeman or Cydia. According to Aaron Perzanowski, a professor specializing in digital copyright law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, even if Apple were to do so, this is such an uncharted legal territory that it would have serious problems in getting their point of view across. Not to mention the fact that the DMCA gives app developers a “pretty good” cover against legal actions.
Tags: Apple, iTunes, App Store, Cydia
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