New, Unauthorized Sources of iPhone Apps

By Alexander Toldt
15:22, March 9th 2009
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New, Unauthorized Sources of iPhone Apps

Competition gets tough and does not always respect rules in the iPhone applications market. Apples iTunes Store, which is the only source of iPhone apps that has Apple’s authorization, is now witnessing the appearance of other sources that offer iPhone users apps.

 
One of those new sources is Cydia Sore, which allows apps without Apple approval to be installed on the iPhone. According to a Wall Street Journal report, two other similar sources are out there. 
 
One of them is Rock Your Phone which mainly helps install a code that undoes Apple's software lock on the iPhone (a process called jail breaking) and also install apps not approved by Apple. The third source of apps, about which we won’t discuss much, offers adult games for iPhone. 
 
Apple maintains a very tight control over the applications. There were numerous apps that got the boot. The most recent of them was the South Park-related app. Apple makes a lot of money from the process of selling apps. The software company gets 30% of every purchase made through its authorized app store. 
 
The man behind the Cydia Store, 27-year-old Jay Freeman, said the store he developed is not a plan to pirate the iPhone applications. The Cydia Store will be about apps that under Apple’s policy will never get the approval.  
 
"The Cydia Store is about providing a simpler billing channel to buy the already commercial applications in Cydia, like Snapture," he said via Twitter.
 
Apple hasn’t made anything about the new sources of applications for its iPhone, but it won’t be long until it does. As long as there are money to be made, Apple will take action and so will the other actors involved in the market. 
 



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