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[iPod 3G]

Following the runaway success of Cydia on iOS - with 10% of all iPhone users, about ten million people, having used the marketplace at least once - Jay "saurik" Freeman is
planning to bring Cydia to the Mac OS X platform very soon. At the 360 MacDev conference yesterday, Jay said the new app store would be ready for the Mac "within weeks," positioning it to go head to head with the Apple Mac App Store expected sometime in January.

Jay has been evangelizing the Cydia vision for some time now, with high-profile talks at
TED
and elsewhere. Rather than merely an alternative to the iTunes App Store, Cydia is positioned as a resource for users to customize their devices to work in the way their owners want them to work. In his talk at 360 MacDev, Jay talked about Cydia, detailed cycript and Cydia Substrate, and took Apple to task for their restrictive policies and the poor quality of developer documentation.

His description of the Cydia Store for Mac was general, but presumably would give users easy access to tools similar to the tweaks available on iOS Cydia as well as useful apps free from Apple restrictions. Jay encourages developers who are interested in using Cydia for the Mac to distribute their products to contact patrick at saurikit dot com for details.

Source:
TUAW

[Chris230291]

Sweet! this will be awesome.

[iPod 3G]

Agreed

[caiden]

omg this is sick!

[iPod 3G]

The icon should be different though

[Chris230291]

well its easy enough to change an icon within osx.

[Chris230291]

i think this one would be better.

[iPod 3G]

Yep

[Kronos]

Now for windows :)

[Vonix]

naw :P

[joeluggage]

Sweetness

[Snoogliebear]

Saurik is the man!

[PowerlinX]

Kr0nOs said:

Now for windows [img alt=:) width=19]http://images.ihackm.../emoji-E056.png[/img]

Windows can already be modded freely

[Chris230291]

PowerlinX said:

Kr0nOs said:

Now for windows [img alt=:) width=19]http://images.ihackm.../emoji-E056.png[/img]

Windows can already be modded freely

so can a macintosh.
its gonna be cool to have it all in one place. will probably see more devs working on stuff too which will be cool.

[PowerlinX]

chris230291 said:

PowerlinX said:

Kr0nOs said:

Now for windows [img alt=:) width=19]http://images.ihackm.../emoji-E056.png[/img]

Windows can already be modded freely

so can a macintosh.
its gonna be cool to have it all in one place. will probably see more devs working on stuff too which will be cool.

But Macs are a little more difficult to mod.


I can see where you download Cydia tweaks for iOS, and you can sync those to your device. That'd be awesome, especially since it's backed up.

[Chris230291]

PowerlinX said:

chris230291 said:

PowerlinX said:

Kr0nOs said:

Now for windows [img alt=:) width=19]http://images.ihackm.../emoji-E056.png[/img]

Windows can already be modded freely

so can a macintosh.
its gonna be cool to have it all in one place. will probably see more devs working on stuff too which will be cool.

But Macs are a little more difficult to mod.


I can see where you download Cydia tweaks for iOS, and you can sync those to your device. That'd be awesome, especially since it's backed up.

yer being to able to sync would be cool. they should do an itunes plugin so when you sync, it syncs your cydia tweaks too.

[PowerlinX]

chris230291 said:

PowerlinX said:

chris230291 said:

PowerlinX said:

Kr0nOs said:

Now for windows [img alt=:) width=19]http://images.ihackm.../emoji-E056.png[/img]

Windows can already be modded freely

so can a macintosh.
its gonna be cool to have it all in one place. will probably see more devs working on stuff too which will be cool.

But Macs are a little more difficult to mod.


I can see where you download Cydia tweaks for iOS, and you can sync those to your device. That'd be awesome, especially since it's backed up.

yer being to able to sync would be cool. they should do an itunes plugin so when you sync, it syncs your cydia tweaks too.

Yeah, hopefully Saurik is reading this lol

[Chris230291]

i doubt it but i hope so. im sure he is a bright lad, he might have it planned already

[PowerlinX]

chris230291 said:

i doubt it but i hope so. im sure he is a bright lad, he might have it planned already

Hopefully

[Kronos]

Doubt that's possible, iTunes is advanced stuff.