WIRED) -- Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able to
reject apps at will -- as it did July 28 with Google Voice.

Some would-be iPhone developers, rejected by Apple, are turning to an
unauthorized app store called Cydia.

But some developers aren't taking the rejection lying down: They're turning
instead to an unauthorized app store called Cydia, where forbidden wares
continue to exist -- and even earn developers some money.

That store is operated by Jay Freeman, more fondly known in the iPhone
"Jailbreak" community as Saurik. Only five months old, his app store Cydia
specializes in selling apps that Apple would reject or ban (or already has).

To use Cydia or the apps available through it, customers need to jailbreak
their phones -- hack them to work around Apple-imposed restrictions -- a
process that Apple claims is illegal.

Indeed, you can even get a Google Voice app, GV Mobile, through Cydia. After
Apple pulled the app from its App Store, developer Sean Kovacs (who is not
affiliated with Google) made it available for free through Cydia.

more at:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/07/i...ers/index.html

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:57:12 -0600, "Roger 2008" <rwpcs@att.net> wrote:

>WIRED) -- Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able to
>reject apps at will -- as it did July 28 with Google Voice.
>
>Some would-be iPhone developers, rejected by Apple, are turning to an
>unauthorized app store called Cydia.
>
>But some developers aren't taking the rejection lying down: They're turning
>instead to an unauthorized app store called Cydia, where forbidden wares
>continue to exist -- and even earn developers some money.
>
>That store is operated by Jay Freeman, more fondly known in the iPhone
>"Jailbreak" community as Saurik. Only five months old, his app store Cydia
>specializes in selling apps that Apple would reject or ban (or already has).
>
And after you "jail break" the phone isn't that reversed in the next
OS update?

"The Undertaker" <replyonusenet@emailprivate.com> wrote in message
news:f6es7551bnhmqutn6v6eh3mm3lnhatd8c0@4ax.com...
>
> And after you "jail break" the phone isn't that reversed in the next
> OS update?

From what I've heard that is the case and I've also heard that the first
upgrade to the next OS would turn a jailbroken phone into a brick, meaning
worthless.
http://mobilitytoday.com/news/iphone...st_upheld.html

I've also heard that the way to jailbreak OS 3.0 was available 3 days after
it was released but now they are on OS 3.0.1 and I don't know yet if there
is a jailbrake for that yet.

Roger 2008 wrote:
> "The Undertaker" <replyonusenet@emailprivate.com> wrote in message
> news:f6es7551bnhmqutn6v6eh3mm3lnhatd8c0@4ax.com...
>> And after you "jail break" the phone isn't that reversed in the next
>> OS update?
>
> From what I've heard that is the case and I've also heard that the first
> upgrade to the next OS would turn a jailbroken phone into a brick, meaning
> worthless.
> http://mobilitytoday.com/news/iphone...st_upheld.html


How AAPL of them.

> And after you "jail break" the phone isn't that reversed in the next
> OS update?

It is, but the dev-team has been succesful in removing that limitation in
all firmwware versions so far. Hope this won't change in the future.

The iPhone OS w/o jailbreaking is really-really bad. With jailbreaking, it
rocks - particularly on the 3G S and if you use Backgrounder.


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"The Undertaker" <replyonusenet@emailprivate.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:57:12 -0600, "Roger 2008" <rwpcs@att.net> wrote:
>
>>WIRED) -- Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able
>>to
>>reject apps at will -- as it did July 28 with Google Voice.
>>
>>Some would-be iPhone developers, rejected by Apple, are turning to an
>>unauthorized app store called Cydia.
>>
>>But some developers aren't taking the rejection lying down: They're
>>turning
>>instead to an unauthorized app store called Cydia, where forbidden wares
>>continue to exist -- and even earn developers some money.
>>
>>That store is operated by Jay Freeman, more fondly known in the iPhone
>>"Jailbreak" community as Saurik. Only five months old, his app store Cydia
>>specializes in selling apps that Apple would reject or ban (or already
>>has).
>>
> And after you "jail break" the phone isn't that reversed in the next
> OS update?
>
>