Newly formed team of iOS hackers called Evad3rs launched evasi0n.com, a website dedicated to the upcoming iOS 6, 6.1 untethered jailbreak. evasi0n.com Cydia is a cornerstone for jailbreak users. An ...

Back in 2008, Jay Freeman first released Cydia as an app store designed for the iPhone, offering apps a few months before Apple had its own App Store. Since then, Cydia has served as an app repository ...

Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able to reject apps at will – as it did July 28 with Google Voice. But some developers aren't taking the rejection lying down: They're ...

Cydia, a platform commonly thought of as the alternative app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just today arrived on Android of all places, in the form of Cydia Substrate*, a tool for ...

Following on from last week – where we looked at Jailbreaking, the processes, the challenges and the teams involved – this article looks to peer into Cydia, an alternative marketplace for ...

When you jailbreak an iOS device, you are given access to Cydia, the wild west frontier of tweaks, themes and apps you can’t get in Apple’s own App Store. Jailbreaking gives you the freedom to ...

Cydia has proven to be quite the worm. It's now installed as a standard part of the iPhone dev team jailbreak, allowing users to customize their systems with software not available through official ...

The big picture: Jailbreaking has been the only way for iOS users to find a way outside of Apple's walled garden. Cydia has been at the core of the jailbreaking scene from the early days and appears ...

A new lawsuit brought by one of Apple’s oldest foes seeks to force the iPhone maker to allow alternatives to the App Store, the latest in a growing number of cases that aim to curb the tech giant’s ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. In the earliest days of the iPhone, Cydia arose as a rival distribution channel ...

Cydia Substrate, formerly known as MobileSubstrate, has finally been updated to support iOS 7 and 64-bit processors. But mods and tweaks still need be updated individually by developers. Photo ...

Cydia claims that Apple used its monopoly position of the App Store to push it out and ultimately render the jailbreaking store useless. Another lawsuit that parallels Epic Games' claims that Apple ...