Cydia is Coming to the Mac!

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Posted December 10, 2010 at 7:01pm by iClarified

Apple is busily working to bring the App Store to the Mac and now Saurik has announced that he will be bringing Cydia to the Mac as well.

According to TUAW, Saurik presented at 360|MacDev giving an overview of his upcoming jailbreak store for Mac OS X, Cycript, and Cydia Substrate.

Currently, Cydia Installer has been used by about 10% of all iPhone users, or about 10 million devices. There are well over 30,000 packages available for iOS, and a lot of open source material can be downloaded from Cydia. He refers to Cydia as a store for things that are not apps, but extensions of what iOS devices can do.

Freeman felt that the same type of store would be useful for Mac OS X devices; the result is a Mac Cydia, which will be available "within weeks." With today's news that the Mac App Store will not support in-app purchases, something that is critical to the freemium app model that is so successful in the iOS world, a Mac Cydia might be just the web store for a number of Mac developers.

Those developers interested in getting their app on the Cydia Store for Mac can contact contact patrick at saurikit.com.

With post more details as they become available...

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Billy_7 - June 22, 2013 at 8:14am

what an amazing app, thanxxx

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Amriibacchus - December 11, 2010 at 2:17pm

No one said apple is supporting cydia.... He is just gonna make an app for developers to share or sell their apps

nunzio - December 11, 2010 at 1:50pm

this is really bad news good for apple but bad for the little man that has a wife a 2 kids how can i pay now for apps

Noker - December 11, 2010 at 3:58am

So that probably means that installous is coming too !?

Name - December 11, 2010 at 9:44am

im disgusted i just bought an iphone only cus apps were free well i do have 15 days to return and i will i will buy a droid

Zeljko - December 11, 2010 at 3:57am

Thanks man. I can not wait for that to happen....THANKS

PATEL - December 11, 2010 at 12:59pm

what is this all about? do we now pay for applications from cydia i think this is very bad I cannot aford to pay for that why they charge now I am very angry now

Frank - December 11, 2010 at 1:14am

Looking forward to this

clint - December 11, 2010 at 9:37am

im really pissed with this news i just jail broke after 2 weeks now cydia is charging GO TO HELL

computerman - December 11, 2010 at 9:40am

is there a solution to cydia what can we do i knew cydia eventually would charge Apple made a wise decision cus many jail broken iphones out there now cydia will charge apple gets a percentage and we the iphone users get screwd (as usual)

rocky - December 11, 2010 at 9:42am

thank you cydia. You made my day. Did you have to release this news this weekend now I’m upset

jamonsterenergy - December 10, 2010 at 7:52pm

i wonder if we're gonna have to jailbreak our mac with our ipods lol jk

jason - December 11, 2010 at 9:23am

ya i knew about that 2 weeks ago It's a smart business move on apples part cus they were losing control of all the free apps now they get 10% of every thing sold on cydia well i guess nothing stays the same and now it does not pay to jail break any more cus all the apps start at 99 cents and up no freebies any more

mary - December 11, 2010 at 9:24am

does that mean i shouldnt jail break because cydia is charging now?

AmesVill - December 10, 2010 at 7:16pm

How Much Money Do you Think Sqaurik Has?

AmesVill - December 10, 2010 at 7:17pm

Saurik*

Rula - December 10, 2010 at 7:30pm

Just Enough for Reloading Data! ))

NeHoMaR - December 10, 2010 at 8:46pm

Not too much I bet. BTW, he looks like Jesus with glasses.

vdesai - December 10, 2010 at 8:58pm

no a lot of money. check his website out saurik.com and look at all the project he has done for school and stuff. im pretty sure he got paid for that

Phil - December 11, 2010 at 3:44am

Thousands of dollars

janghor - December 11, 2010 at 4:00am

Hi AmesVill, frist tell us how much money Apple pay to you very month . Best regards, Jan

Concernedcitizen - December 11, 2010 at 10:59am

Obviously not enough to get a trainer and go to the gym. Look at those titties