10.12.2010 23:36 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

360|MacDev: Jay "saurik" Freeman on the jailbreak store for Mac apps

When it comes to jailbreaking, there's probably no name as familiar to the development community than that of Jay "saurik" Freeman. Jay is the brain behind the Cydia App Store, and this morning he gave the attendees of 360|MacDev an overview of his upcoming jailbreak store for Mac OS X, cycript, and Cydia Substrate. Currently, Cydia Installer has been used by about 10% of all iPhone users, or about 10 million devices. There are well over 30,000 packages available for iOS, and a lot of open source material can be downloaded from Cydia. He refers to Cydia as a store for things that are not apps, but extensions of what iOS devices can do. Freeman felt that the same type of store would be useful for Mac OS X devices; the result is a Mac Cydia, which will be a

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