According to a reported by The Wall Street Journal, three rogue online app stores are getting ready to enter the iPhone apps market. One of those app stores is Cydia Store, which is scheduled for launch this weekend and will offer apps for the iPhone. The problem for Apple is that it doesn’t get the usual 30 per cent it usually charges for every app sale. 

 

The man behind the Cydia Store is 27-year-old Jay Freeman, a computer science doctoral who invented Cycorder, an app that allows the iPhone to run as a camcorder. Cycorder was banned by Apple from the App Sore.

 

Cydia is an app that modifies a standard iPhone so that it can install and run unauthorized iPhone apps. Freeman said that the main goal of the new app store is to provide choice, because Apple’s control has been very limiting for developers and users so far.  

 

Another unauthorized app store is "Rock Your Phone," which does the same thing: helps users with standard iPhones download and buy rogue apps. The third new online app store sells iPhone adult games.

 

It’s hard to believe that Apple won’t have a response to this. It can’t just take its hand off the iPhone app market. Not after it sold 88 percent more iPhones in the past couple of months compared to the same period 2007.