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Cydia for Mac?
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Alright the funny thing is no one answered the question I asked.
There is no Cydia for Mac. Jay Freeman is an iOS developer, not OSX developer. Furthermore, there is no need for a Cydia for Mac when we have the internet as previously mentioned.
Funny, because Cydia is a concept that was created as a response to Apple's restrictive controls over which apps enter the App Store.
Cydia is possible because the App Store holds a monopoly over iOS apps. In order to get apps not approved by the App Store, Cydia requires jailbreaking.
The thing is, the Mac App Store is nowhere close to holding such controls, nor does Apple want to hold such controls over the Mac applications market. Cydia was only possible because iOS can be jailbroken; the concept of jailbreaks do not apply to Macs.
With Mac OS X, you have freedom to get whatever app you like from any source. So, there's no rationale for Saurik to develop a Cydia for Mac, when you could just simply visit the developer website and get the application there yourself.
Therefore, Saurik probably won't create a Cydia for Mac; it's pointless. And we don't know if such a thing exists yet. It's best if you email Saurik yourself, but he'll probably say it's not happening.
Cydia is possible because the App Store holds a monopoly over iOS apps. In order to get apps not approved by the App Store, Cydia requires jailbreaking.
The thing is, the Mac App Store is nowhere close to holding such controls, nor does Apple want to hold such controls over the Mac applications market. Cydia was only possible because iOS can be jailbroken; the concept of jailbreaks do not apply to Macs.
With Mac OS X, you have freedom to get whatever app you like from any source. So, there's no rationale for Saurik to develop a Cydia for Mac, when you could just simply visit the developer website and get the application there yourself.
Therefore, Saurik probably won't create a Cydia for Mac; it's pointless. And we don't know if such a thing exists yet. It's best if you email Saurik yourself, but he'll probably say it's not happening.
how about supporting the devs and pay for the apps
Guess you don't know much about Cydia.
3G tethering from your iPhone without paying more money to AT&T?
Is that a legitimate reason to have Cydia?
Theres an illegal way to download anything. That's really a moot point.
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Jay Freeman is not exclusively a iOS developer.
On 12/11/10 He Announced that a Cydia store would be available within weeks of Mac App Store going live.
It never Materialized. Probably because the speculation that Mac App Store would be the "Only" way to install an App after this went live.... never actually happened... thus not requiring Mac OS to be "Jailbroken".
There is no need for a Cydia App Store when the "Unapproved" Developers can sell to you directly and you can install on your own.
The only real benefit an Alternative Native app store would provide is the ability to manage Delta Updates for unapproved Apps similar to how Mac App Store does for approve apps.
On 12/11/10 He Announced that a Cydia store would be available within weeks of Mac App Store going live.
It never Materialized. Probably because the speculation that Mac App Store would be the "Only" way to install an App after this went live.... never actually happened... thus not requiring Mac OS to be "Jailbroken".
There is no need for a Cydia App Store when the "Unapproved" Developers can sell to you directly and you can install on your own.
The only real benefit an Alternative Native app store would provide is the ability to manage Delta Updates for unapproved Apps similar to how Mac App Store does for approve apps.
There isn't a Cydia for Mac or anything similar (that I know of) at this time. I don't think there is much need as Macs are more open than iDevices. You don't have to hack (jailbreak in the iPhone world) a Mac to install unapproved third party modifications or apps. The Mac App Store and devs' websites already provide a means for distribution of content (apps).
I hope that the OP isn't asking about this in hopes of installing cracked apps. As for those who believe jailbreaking and Cydia are all about cracked apps, you have no concept of the jailbreak world. Sure, some people pirate their apps (just like any other content people pirate), but there is much more to jailbreaking than that. Themes, modifications, iFile (Finder for iDevices), and much more.
I hope that the OP isn't asking about this in hopes of installing cracked apps. As for those who believe jailbreaking and Cydia are all about cracked apps, you have no concept of the jailbreak world. Sure, some people pirate their apps (just like any other content people pirate), but there is much more to jailbreaking than that. Themes, modifications, iFile (Finder for iDevices), and much more.
Should have said predominantly an iOS dev. Have either of the claims you posted materialized?
I don't think it's such a ridiculous idea. App managers on jailbreak iPhones started with ports of apt from Linux. Last time I checked, Cydia itself is based on apt. That's a package manager that was designed for desktop use. Using apt in Ubuntu for instance is a fairly lovely thing, and it's substantially easier to manage apps when they're installable via apt than when they're installed individually / manually.
As for the distinction between the app store and Cydia (or whatever), there are (probably) always going to be legitimate things Apple doesn't want in its store. A solution where all one's apps are managed by two package managers (Apple's and Cydia or some other apt derivative) is probably the next best thing to an all-in-one manager.
As for the distinction between the app store and Cydia (or whatever), there are (probably) always going to be legitimate things Apple doesn't want in its store. A solution where all one's apps are managed by two package managers (Apple's and Cydia or some other apt derivative) is probably the next best thing to an all-in-one manager.
I do love the idea of a (true) package manager for OS X.
By the way, isn't this better suited in the OS X forum?
Did you even look at the first link? There's nothing there, and look at their twitter, just some n00b re-hashing jailbreak news.