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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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
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)
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
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