Jailbreakers, rejoice. Soon a sensible way of downloading unsanctioned apps will arrive, the one which won’t require a storefront app like the Cydia Store or Apple’s App Store. The iPhone Download blog points out that Infini Dev Team (no association with the iPhone Dev-team whatsoever) is working on an alternative store dubbed Lima.
MacStories explains that the Lima store will allow third parties to put their programs for sale. Users will have an option to manage repositories and use “a backup system for installed packages” so they won’t have to use third-party apps such as xBackup or PKGBackup to restore their apps after a firmware update, explains author Federico Viticci. With an estimated ten percent of iOS devices being jailbroken and up to a million and half users logging in to the Cydia Store each day, the jailbreak market is clearly striving. The reasons are many, chiefly Apple’s numerous app rejections and the fact that Apple forbids popular tweaks, such as interface themes and custom skins.
- If you need a reason to jailbreak, Cydia’s founder has a few (9to5mac.com)
- iAd rival: Unofficial app store Cydia lands advertising deal with Toyota (9to5mac.com)
- Apple now field-testing iOS 5 with App Store applications (9to5mac.com)
- Back up and restore your jailbroken apps with xBackup (9to5mac.com)
- US Army launching own app store (9to5mac.com)
- Untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.2 is out (happy jailbreaking!) (9to5mac.com)
