The lines below hit us via the Wall Street Journal:
The developer behind some popular iPhone software on Friday plans to open a service called Cydia Store that could potentially sell hundreds of iPhone applications that are not available through Apple’s official store. Users must download special software that alters their iPhones before they can run these programs.
Another small company plans a store called Rock Your Phone for iPhone users who have not yet modified their devices to make it easier to download and buy unauthorized applications. A third start-up is building an online store that specializes in selling adult games for the iPhone.
From my point of view, this is a completely logic step: systems like Cydia currently implement about 75% of what an ESD needs to have. Not slapping a purchasing back-end onto the service would have been boneheaded…I wonder why nobody figured it out before!
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