My webhost claimed to provide unlimited traffic but when Winterboarder Themeatorium got up to an average of 250 000 hits a day, they said the site is too popular and the servers cannot handle the traffic. Now the repo will be down till I find another host that can handle it, I’m in the market for a dedicated linux host. Yay, mo’ money I gotta dish out.
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Ripdev the makers of Installer 4 app, just released Icy which is a iPhone installer more or less a slick looking Cydia clone. It uses the same linux Debian package distribution and installation technology (DPKG and Aptitude). I thought it was a new Cydia at first but it wasn’t the case at all.
Here is a look at the installation process:
First impression is not so good.
It installed like any other .deb package however when I started the app it looks like it is picking up the sources and packages I have allready installed in Cydia. The Categories section is not showing anything and can’t browse the content from the repositories. It also crashed my Springboard and my iPhone rebooted itself. It started working after I refreshed the sources list.
I’m just glad Icy didn’t mess anything up and Cydia still works just fine. Now after going through the installation process of one of my own themes I’m just wondering how can I block this app from accessing my repo. If I can’t serve advertising to pay for the bandwith I’m not gonna provide free content to their Network.
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In a latest gaffe, Apple’s patent lawyers file the patent for the iPhone biometric security patent application with the US Patent & Trademark Office, using illustrations of a jailbroken iPhone.
These illustration clearly show the apps only available by jailbreaking the device, such as Installer.app, SMBPrefs, Mobile Terminal, Customize, and the iWood Realize theme from the iSpazio repository.
Filings like this would explain why Apple Inc. keeps getting sued over copyrights and pattent infringement. Their R&D department is not as smart as it is assumed. In fact this only shows Apple ripping off the independent developers and sell it as their own patents. Since Terminal and other applications apear in a patent filing they can later claim ownership, if far in the future they might get sued over it.
Sourcess:
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Apple Inc has begun selling the iPhone 3G without the AT&T contract. AT&T has also been offering the deal, but only for those with an existing contract with the provider. The inventory clearance is more fuel to the rumor that the next generation of iPhones will be unveiled soon, most likely at the annual developers contract in June.
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As a reminder, even though Saurik is working hard on his servers and the main page of Cydia and his repository are down, Cydia itself is functional and the other repositories are still running fine.
The only problems with this are:
If you are Jailbreaking right now and want to install Cydia, it won’t work.
If you have Cydia allready and want to install packages from Saurik, ie. Cycorder or Repository packages from the Repositories section. It won’t work.
At the moment if you want to install a new repo you have to install it by entering it manually.
What can you do?
You can browse the new packages from the repos you already have.
Sit back have a cup of coffee and a nice slice patience till everything comes back up to normal.
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Somebody took it upon themselves, to take advantage of the Cydia Store launch this weekend and registered the domain CydiaStore.com.
This website has nothing to do with Saurik and it’s a atempt to cash in from the name. At the same time it looks like, besides trying to cash in through Google and Amazon ads, he or she is trying to harvest email accounts.
This domain name is registered privately through Domainsbyproxy and it is impossible for me to track who is behind it. If anyone knows other methods such as Adsense id please flush him out.
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Yesterday March 8 2009 Thomas Claburn from InformationWeek a american tentacle of the British media conglomerate United Business Media published an article about the Cydia Store.
At first it looks like any other news article but if you look at it twice it is nothing more than a attack of character and reader manipulation. He is starting off with the title “Apple’s iTunes Store Challenged By Rogue Developers” : Since when developers are rogue??? Since when people that payed their dues to Apple just to have their apps rejected become overnight rogues? I call you and you bosses that made you write this piece a rogues. Look at Glupod and why Apple rejected them and see the true shady character that Apple is.Why aren’t you writing about that??? Huh???
This article is full of carefully implanted words like : unauthorized alternative online market, online store specializing in adult applications, pirating applications, Apple can expect that attack to continue.
This article just a flat out attempt to label Mr. Freeman and others like myself rogues and a bunch of deviant bunch hell bent on attacking Apple.
For your information Thomas, we are not doing anything illegal. It’s just Apple seeing their monopoly on the mobile market crumbling in front of them. Their reaction is not to work with their customer base, but to influence the United States legal system in their favor so they can sue and financially destroy any competition.
We are the next generation of consumers, some have or are working on college degrees, some of us have businesses, we are all law abiding citizens who live in a country where we are free to express ourselves, and we are not going to accept censorship at any level from nobody, let alone a fat corporation.
Since you called me a rogue and pissed me off enough to make me write this at 2 AM, I can call you a sellout…..dush!
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At 2 PM EST Cydia Store Opened it’s doors. For now it has only one app Cyntact and the billing is done through Amazon USA. Recent reports indicate that Amazon UK does notwork yet.
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In the past couple of months Cydia has become more and more popular. Recently the number of Cydia users hit about 2 million worldwide. ” This has not been officially confirmed yet” . To say the least Apple is not happy about this direct competition to the App Store. With so many users Cydia is rapidly rising from the underground into the mainstream and the media is taking notice. Today
ZDNet and Wall Street Journal published articles speculating on Apple’s reaction to the Cydia Store. Being a Cydia repository owner and iPhone theme designer a verdict on this issue will hit home, because it would make me either a criminal or a UI developer. Personally I’m not looking forward to be kept underground, and labeled a crimial because Apple wants to monopolize the content didstribution to their iPhones. Since Apple can’t justify and argue in favor of monopoly, their other avenue of squashing competition is to argue copyright infringement. I will help Cydia and others like me any way possible to fight for the right to use our devices we payed for at it’s full potential. Damn sure I’ll be signing up for the Cydia Store when it becomes available.
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Amazon.com has launched an application that will allow users of the iPhone and iPod Touch to purchase and read books through the company’s Kindle e-book service.
Late Tuesday, Amazon said that it has made a free Kindle application available through the App Store operated by Apple Inc.
Users can download the application free of charge and use it to purchase and read electronic versions of books over the devices. The move is the first to expand Amazon’s nascent e-book service beyond the company’s own Kindle device, a new version of which was launched last month.
Amazon says it currently has more than 240,000 books available for the Kindle service, including 104 of 112 New York Times’ Bestsellers.
Scott Devitt of Stifel Nicolaus, who currently has a buy rating on Amazon’s shares, says the move is significant because it reduces the possibility of a smaller device from a competitor gaining traction in the e-book market.
“Amazon has turned its digital book content into an open-source distribution platform,” Stifel wrote in a note to clients. “While Kindle was made for reading and it shows, some consumers will find it useful to fill ‘wait time’ with reading on devices that weren’t built for reading like the iPhone.”
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