Cydia's App Store For Jailbroken iPhones Shuts Down Purchases (iphonehacks.com)

Cydia, the App Store for jailbroken devices, is shutting down purchases as its creator moves to shut down the store entirely in the near future. "Cydia's creator Saurik made the announcement on Reddit after a bug was discovered in the platform that may have put user data at risk," iPhonehacks reports. "This bug prompted Saurik to clarify the issue and reveal that he has been planning on shutting down Cydia for quite a while now." From the report: The founder clarifies that the bug only puts a limited number of users at risk who are logged into Cydia and browse a repository with untrusted content -- a scenario which Saurik has strongly advised against right from day one. Plus, he also says that this is not a data leak and he has not lost access to PayPal authorization tokens. Coming to the harsh reality, Saurik says that he has been looking to shut down Cydia Store before the end of this year. The reports of a data leak have acted as a catalyst to bring the timetable further up. There are multiple reasons as to why he is looking to shut down the service including the fact that he has to pay for the hefty hosting bills from his own pocket.

Saurik has already gone ahead and shut down the ability to buy jailbreak tweaks in Cydia. This means that one can no longer use the Cydia Store to buy jailbreak tweaks on a jailbroken iPhone. On the bright side, Saurik does intend to allow users to download jailbreak tweaks that they have already paid for. Saurik will also make a more formal announcement about the shutting down of Cydia sometime soon. Do note that this change relates only to Cydia Store and not Cydia the installer which is used to install tweaks on a jailbroken device. The latter will continue to work as usual.

Comments

Samsung Finally Gets Courage

[Anonymous Coward]

Time for Slashdot to start praising the lack of a headphone jack now that their beloved non-apple phones are finally dropping the obsolete jack.

OH how the tables have turned.

Let 'em crash

[Stormwatch]

iPhone users are a weird bunch. They knowingly choose the more restrictive platform, then try to find workarounds, rather than choose the platform that is more open in the first place. To quote one of the greatest movies ever: "they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash."

Re:Let 'em crash

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, I understand that was justifiable back then. But I'm saying, if you buy an iPhone TODAY, you can't really complain much. Its restrictiveness is well-known, so you buy one accepting that as part of the package. If you want openness, you just go and get an Android -- which has long ceased to be an inferior option.

So let me get this straight.

When Cydia started, when the iPhone was one of the most powerful systems after jailbreaking, because we did so makes us "a weird bunch"?

Now today, when that isn't the case anymore, and the entire jailbreaking scene has moved on to better things, to the point even Cydia and it's infrastructure is shutting down, that makes us "a weird bunch"?

Absolutely no one is complaining about how restrictive iPhone is today. In fact all of the powerusers aren't buying iPhones today. They aren't jailbreaking. Even the infrastructure to do so is being closed down due to being of less use.

Why does that make us a weird bunch?

Would not the weird thing be to continue needlessly running the cydia repos that aren't being used?
Or continuing to jailbreak iPhones when better options exist?

I just can't place at any point in time, now or then, any aspect that is weird and not completely expected and sensible.
Your insult towards the old cydia group and those that use it "being weird" sounds exactly that, a hateful insult for no reason.

Re: THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOL

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't agree with SuperKendall on a lot of issues. But the fact that he's attracted a slanderous nazi asshole cyberstalker tells us he's been speaking some truth to power.