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The State of Jailbreak and the Closing of the Cydia Store

Jailbreak users were surprised to learn that the Cydia Store will no longer offer paid apps and tweaks. Cydia creator Jay ‘’ Saurik’’ Freeman decided to remove PayPal integration and justified the decision in a post on the official Reddit forums.

The main argument for the decision is that the cost to keep the functionality was bigger than the revenue generated from the items that were purchased. The introduction of PayPal integration also created a lot of friction within the community as some users argued that all tweaks and apps for jailbreak devices should be free in the first place.

The announcement will affect developers that relied on paying users for extra money. Saurik noted that the service was successful at first and all the revenue collected was used in order to maintain the servers that host the repositories offered by Cydia.

The Cydia app will remain available for the foreseeable future but some repositories may close since the cost to maintain them is too high in comparison to their popularity.

On the bright side, it appears that there are still chances for the release of a jailbreak iOS 12.1 version. A developer claims that he has managed to successfully jailbreak an iPhone XS Max, managing to defeat the numerous security checks placed by Apple within the software.

It remains to be seen if the developer will release the jailbreak for free or sell it to interested third-party groups. After all, he may want to receive a reward for his efforts. The release of a new jailbreak version would breathe fresh life into a bleeding community as jailbreak users are missing many of the features introduced with the latest version of iOS.

There is also hope that a public jailbreak build will be released by another developer later in the future as he is now focusing on removing the security restrictions that block the installation of jailbreak iOS.

The future looks bright for jailbreak lovers.

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Cydia Store Coming To An End – Purchases Closed Down: What’s Next?

While jailbreak might have been revived, things are definitely different compared to how they used to be. Just a couple of years ago, Cydia (a version of App Store which contained jailbreak tweaks) was essential. For many users it was just as important as the App Store, as it allowed them to customize their phone and adapt it to their needs.

However, things have changed drastically later on. Jailbreaking became a difficult process and developers found it almost impossible to crack recent iOS versions. Even when they managed to do that, Cydia Store wasn’t able to make a comeback as well.

Shutting down the service

Cydia’s founder Jay “Saurik” Freeman explained that he thought about shutting down the service. That’s because Cydia stopped being needed, and this also led to almost no profit. Freeman wrote a Reddit post in which he offered more details:

The reality is that I wanted to just shut down the Cydia Store entirely before the end of the year, and was considering moving the timetable up after receiving the report (to this weekend). This service loses me money and is not something I have any passion to maintain: it was a critical component of a healthy ecosystem, and for a while it helped fund a small staff of people to maintain the ecosystem, but it came at great cost to my sanity and led lots of people to irrationally hate me due to what amounted to a purposeful misunderstanding of how profit vs. revenue works.

However, it appears that Cydia won’t be shut down for now, as this wouldn’t help Freeman, who would still have to pay for hosting archived repositories. Therefore, he decided to close down purchases. This change might mark the end for Cydia.

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The Cydia Store for Jailbroken iOS Devices is Being Shut Down

The latest tendencies from the mobile industry led to some changes. It looks like in 2018 people were not as fond on jailbreaking an iOS device as they used to be considering few believe jailbreaking is safe anymore. This low interest caused the Cydia store for jailbroken devices to reach the end of its era.

Jay Freeman, also known as “Saurik”, the founder of Cydia, announced that the associated store is being shut down through a post on Reddit. He added that his intention was to complete this process until the end of 2018, but now he will wait for the final report.

The main reasoning behind Freeman’s choice is that the Cydia store costs him a lot of money and it’s not worth it. The store was necessary for completing some jailbreaks, but now things have gone too far. Saurik said that most of his costs won’t be covered even if he shuts the Cydia store down. He still needs many terabytes of bandwidth every month for hosting the repositories he just archived, but it will be his responsibility to keep covering for these costs.

What will happen to those who have made purchases from the Cydia store?

In what these people are concerned, Freeman says that he is planning to maintain the possibility of downloading already existing packages. He is keeping this feature because it is a lot easier for him to monitor the accounting and the way backend execution works.

The Cydia store was very useful for jailbroken iOS devices, because it allowed them to purchase and download tweaks and items for customizing their operating systems. Customization of iOS is a process promoted by Apple for years, but in this case jailbreaking becomes useless. Apple fans are curious to see what will happen to the jailbreaking community after the Cydia store is being shut down.

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