Two days ago, the Dev team has Evad3rs the new Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 6.1 released, and thus solved the digital shackles of Apple. The benefits are obvious, with elevated privileges, the mobile operating system and designed to be adapted to your own needs. Enhancements, tweaks and apps that are otherwise in the Apple App Store are not available, can be downloaded from the Cydia Store. Unfortunately there are also a flip side of the story.
The jailbreak has been around for several years, not from the Apple community indispensable, but not always had the best reputation. In many places, the unleashing of iOS devices associated with illegal activities in connection and unfortunately, this trend has changed, yet. The keyword "Installous" should say something for everyone and is still happening today present. The former application could not be loaded from an external source from the Cydia Store and allowed to install apps gercrackten. Paid apps were downloaded in this way without paying anything to download and install. This has fortunately an end. Hackulos, the former operators have, in the last year the service to retire sent. Much of the jailbreak users may not like it, but the hard-working developers who for months or even years of work in an application stuck and finance his own life with the sale of the app, all the more. Alternatives are of course long been in circulation, and the scary thing is that operators sell not only the paid apps, but to enrich themselves even to property and earn money through the service. Intrusion of advertising makes it possible and who cares the least? The user.
Illegal trend does, however, not only on the applications from the App Store, but also to the expansion from the Cydia Store. External sources, so-called repositories distribute the complex developed tweaks for iOS devices at hand and do not give a damn about the work of many programmers. The motivation behind it is in this case is not different. The illegal repositories have also placed ads on pages and earn arm and a leg. A reward for the developer does not exist.
More frightening is that since the release of Untethered jailbreak every day new questions roll in (even as I write this article) in Facebook, in comments or via email. All want free apps, extensions or tweaks dusting. The copyright is simply ignored and with a click on the download button is you already landed in the seedy business of piracy. This is gnawing on the same train on the existence or the content of the developer is, most do not realize. An apology is not, of course, because eventually die from the small programmer and it can no longer afford to put their time into the development of innovative apps. For the above reasons, I will do so in the future no help about that type of illegal downloads.
The final question is, why can not the many owners of expensive Apple device, which is well known that the high-priced electronics products, put one or two euros in the purchase of Cydia apps and tweaks? In the wild but also to Steal is not the daily coffee-to-go or runs with stolen slippers from the shoe store. The anonymity makes it possible. It is to be hoped that the jailbreak developers and especially Saurik, which is responsible for the Cydia Store, and start thinking about this in the future and find a long-term method against the illegal downloading is. Until then you can only appeal to the conscience of the users.
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