iPhone Developers Go Underground, after being rejected by Apple
Apple rejects more and more iphone applications that are being submitted for their entry in apple app store, the last and famous app Google Voice which is submitted by google. This makes the developers a little bit angry and now they found their way to get into Iphones. These developers are not lying down because of this rejection instead they’re turning to an unauthorized app store called Cydia, where forbidden wares continue to exist — and even earn developers some money.
That store is operated by Jay Freeman, more fondly known in the iPhone “Jailbreak” community as Saurik. Only five months old, his app store Cydia specializes in selling apps that Apple would reject or ban. To use Cydia or the apps available through it, customers need to jailbreak their phones — hack them to work around Apple-imposed restrictions.
You can even get a Google Voice app, GV Mobile, through Cydia. After Apple pulled the app from its App Store, developer Sean Kovacs (who is not affiliated with Google) made it available for free through Cydia.
“People are so annoyed by Apple and their shit, and if you give them opportunity to go around it, then they’ll even pay for it,”
said Kim Streich, a developer whose app 3G Unrestrictor earned $19,000 in sales in just two weeks through Cydia.
