{"id":30994,"date":"2020-12-11T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30994"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:04:30","slug":"cydia-sues-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/11\/cydia-sues-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Cydia Sues Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Cydia is joining a growing cadre of developers accusing Apple of anticompetitive behavior, reports The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>. Cydia on Thursday sued Apple, accusing the company of using anticompetitive tactics to “nearly destroy Cydia” ahead of the App Store launch, which Cydia’s lawyers say has a monopoly over software distribution on iOS devices.<\/p>

According to Cydia, if Apple did not have an “illegal monopoly” over iOS app distribution, users would be able to choose “how and where to locate and obtain iOS apps,” and developers would also have alternate distribution methods.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

According to his estimations, more than half of early iPhone customers were jailbreaking their iPhones to use Cydia, and in 2010, 4.5 million people were searching for apps weekly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Considering so many iOS features first appeared as jailbreak tweaks via Cydia, this is going to be a very tangled mess for Apple to prove that it didn’t unfairly copy\/steal feature after feature from the jailbreak community before a court system unprepared for that kind of nuance<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

It’s not clear to me that’s relevant to this case, however.<\/p>\n\n

Jesper<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I had the original iPhone, and could not have used it if Cydia and jailbreaking wasn’t around.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n