This week has been one exciting week in the jailbreaking community and what better way to finish off the week than by comparing two of the greatest 3rd party software installers. It is no doubt that for years Cydia has been at the top of the food chain for 3rd party software installers, and it isn’t until recently that any real competition has popped up. We have seen several installers over the past few years; including the original 3rd party software manager – Installer, and also Icy and Kryptes were in circulation for awhile.
However these installers have had their days and are now left unsupported in the jailbreaking community. The community now has two main installers to choose from and they are Cydia and the Rock App. Let the competition begin!
Update: the tool is now entitled Extender: Reloaded, not Extender Installer. Amend your Cydia search accordingly. Since the release of Yalu for iOS 10, many users have been faced with a new annoyance: the 7-day signing period for their jailbreak app. Without a paid Apple developer account they are forced to connect their devices to their computers once a week to sideload their jailbreak app again.
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Introducing Cydia Cydia has been around for a long time and it has lots to show for it. Back in the 1xx days when installer was number 1, Cydia was started and when the jump to the 2xx firmware generation came about Cydia quickly reigned supreme. Why did Cydia reign supreme over the original 3rd party software manager installer?
Well Cydia was linux based which made it extremely more desirable than Installer and it also came with many improvements. Cydia improved on Installer in just about every way possible to be precise, faster repository access, easier package installation, more user content, and the availability of developer apps at very low cost to the consumer with Paypal options for purchase. Cydia has been the default installed for almost 3 years now and is the most stable installer to date. The only real problem is it memory-footprint and large loading times. While this may not be a problem for newer devices such as the iPhone 3gs this poses a real inconvenience to older devices who have to wait 5 minutes just for their data to reload. Rock app was great while it lasted. I really miss the speed.
And also towards the end of its life the bugs were very minimal. And the best part was it stored a list of all the apps you installed to your user account. So you could restore all your packages very easily.
Another plus was the ability to install with out a respring! But claims from Cydia are thats the reason it supposedly wasn’t safe. And Cydia bought out rock your phone and the days of fast package and repo loading were over. Cydia also said they had plans to add features to Cydia that were like rock. But its been a year and I haven’t seen one added. This is why monopolies are bad for the consumer. With healthy competition to push Cydia to get creative it will never happen.
Would windows 7 be close to what it is today if there wasn’t ever a osx? Nice article. Good luck out there in the repo world.