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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