Kynes said:
perpride said:
1 - They don't sell their stuff becuase it is illegal to sell hacks for a console. It is perfectly legal to mod your own console, but I'm pretty sure you can't charge people for it.
2 - They don't give everything away for free. I've been in the iPhone hacking seen for a few years and many hackers charge (quite a bit) for hacked apps for the iPhone. It's gone to the point where there is a seperate paid store for hacked applications on the iPhone.
3 - They have their own motivations. For instance, the recent upsurge in PS3 hacking interest has come as a DIRECT result of Sony removing the Other OS (Linux) option from PS3. It completely backfired when you think about it, cause not only did people find a way to put Linux, they realized how flawed the PS3's security truly is.
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AFAIK Cydia store is for non aproved by apple apps, apps apple don't want in the app store, not for hacked apps.
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The apps which are on cydia are apps which apple doesn't want to be on the iPhone. Many of them give you features which apple doens't want the iPhone to run. For instance, custom wallpapers and multitasking have been available through cydia for years (apple didn't have them till iOS4). Either way, I think these apps would qualify as hacked apps because nobody with a non-jailbroken phone can run them.
I can make face time calls on my regular 3G network. This is an app I paid for on Cydia. I wouldn't be able to use it had I not jailbroken.
