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Pirating without the Jailbreak? iPA God breaks the rules twice over

this is funah

this is funah

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iPA God is an App that gives you all the benefits of jailbreaking and cydia, without the need for an actual jailbreak.

How, you might ask?

By signing your iDevice up with a Apple iPhone Dev account, allowing for unapproved apps to be installed on your device.

Illegal?

YES. highly illegal and staring Apple in the face, begging for a lawsuit and many cancelled Dev accounts.

Dev Team developer CDevWill is criticizing iPA God's tactics and I also recommend people STAY AWAY to avoid getting wrapped up in a $20 waste of time and possibly a lawsuit.
 
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Illegal? Hardly.


Does anyone else find it funny that people call iOS applications "apps" but their extension is .ipa while OS X applications have the extension .app, but until recently have been referred to as applications?
 
this is funah said:
iPA God is an App that gives you all the benefits of jailbreaking and cydia, without the need for an actual jailbreak.

How, you might ask?

By signing your iDevice up with a Apple iPhone Dev account, allowing for unapproved apps to be installed on your device.

Illegal?

YES. highly illegal and staring Apple in the face, begging for a lawsuit and many cancelled Dev accounts.

Dev Team developer CDevWill is criticizing iPA God's tactics and I also recommend people STAY AWAY to avoid getting wrapped up in a $20 waste of time and possibly a lawsuit.
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I'm probably going to get ridiculed here, but I think it is pure genius
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
Illegal? Hardly.
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i forgot to mention this allows for cracked apps to be installed, which is the main motivation behind iPA God... and using the Apple Dev account is not a good way to stay under the radar.

ItouchMe said:
I'm probably going to get ridiculed here, but I think it is pure genius
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i agree that it's pure genius, but it's really sketchy and going far beyond what the jailbreak community is about.

jailbreaking is so that people can customize their iphone using open source or paid apps not approved by apple... it's not making money off of app store apps that aren't yours...

installous and cracked apps at least dont really make money because of it (doesnt make it right).
 
this is funah said:
i agree that it's pure genius, but it's really sketchy and going far beyond what the jailbreak community is about.

jailbreaking is so that people can customize their iphone using open source or paid apps not approved by apple... it's not making money off of app store apps that aren't yours...

installous and cracked apps at least dont really make money because of it (doesnt make it right).
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That is true, great response. And it looks like that you will not be able to install tweaks and certain signed apps. It looks like you can only install whatever they can supply.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
Illegal? Hardly.


Does anyone else find it funny that people call iOS applications "apps" but their extension is .ipa while OS X applications have the extension .app, but until recently have been referred to as applications?
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.ipa files are just zipped up .app folders and a metadata file
 
Actually, I thought of this long ago, as a beta tester for Aurora Feint.

I'm surprised it has taken this long.
 
this is funah said:
you're right, sorry about that. he is, however, followed by the chronicdevteam's twitter... i'm quite sure he's a respected hacker. not sure anymore though.
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He's an app store developer, the maker of tweetaholic. He's worked on some stuff in the JB world (a PDF exploit fix, not the one that made it to cydia) but never, that I know of, directly related to any of the JB tools.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
Does anyone else find it funny that people call iOS applications "apps" but their extension is .ipa while OS X applications have the extension .app, but until recently have been referred to as applications?
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You're on to quite the conspiracy :rolleyes:


Everyone calls programs apps these days. I hear it a lot around pc/mac applications and of course android.


But how is this relevant? Pretty non-sequitor if you ask me.
 
This is really just a ploy for the guy to make some money off of stupid people... Apple can fix this in the next firmware update, and then are you any better off? No. You're out $20 and getting less then a normal jailbreak.
 
this is funah said:
iPA God is an App that gives you all the benefits of jailbreaking and cydia, without the need for an actual jailbreak.

How, you might ask?

By signing your iDevice up with a Apple iPhone Dev account, allowing for unapproved apps to be installed on your device.

Illegal?

YES. highly illegal and staring Apple in the face, begging for a lawsuit and many cancelled Dev accounts.

Dev Team developer CDevWill is criticizing iPA God's tactics and I also recommend people STAY AWAY to avoid getting wrapped up in a $20 waste of time and possibly a lawsuit.
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Title is VERY VERY misleading, Jailbreaking is getting Root access to the device, IPAGOD DOES NOT>...give you any benefits, all it does it's exploit a Developers tool to install Stolen IPAs. That is not the reason why I jailbreake.
 
maturola said:
Title is VERY VERY misleading, Jailbreaking is getting Root access to the device, IPAGOD DOES NOT>...give you any benefits, all it does it's exploit a Developers tool to install Stolen IPAs. That is not the reason why I jailbreake.
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Agreed. Jailbreaking != software piracy

I don't understand why so many people seem to think that the only reason to jailbreak is to install cracked apps. The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who doesn't jailbreak his iPhone (and knows I do) about an app I bought and he was like "riiight bought...." and I had to tell him that not all jailbreakers do so for the sake of software piracy.
 
DirtySocks85 said:
Agreed. Jailbreaking != software piracy

I don't understand why so many people seem to think that the only reason to jailbreak is to install cracked apps. The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who doesn't jailbreak his iPhone (and knows I do) about an app I bought and he was like "riiight bought...." and I had to tell him that not all jailbreakers do so for the sake of software piracy.
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Duh, Hackers = Pirates.
 
maturola said:
Title is VERY VERY misleading, Jailbreaking is getting Root access to the device, IPAGOD DOES NOT>...give you any benefits, all it does it's exploit a Developers tool to install Stolen IPAs. That is not the reason why I jailbreake.
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I hear you, most people dont know much about jailbreaking and the benefits of it.
Some guy asked me the other day. So what happens after you jailbreak?:D
 
this is funah said:
installous and cracked apps at least dont really make money because of it (doesnt make it right).
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They make a ton of money on their file hosting site filedude. Otherwise there would be no instalous. I think someone looked at the hosting IP addresses and found a direct connection between the two. This IS pure genius and much much more profitable that IPA God could ever be. Also, a lot more unethical.
 
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