Cydia is shutting down the ability to accept payments for paid app purchases made by iOS jailbroken devices while Cydia itself will be shutting down soon.
Jay Freeman, the Cydia founder better known as Saurik has decided to finally put an end to the iPhone and iPad alternative apps hub for Apple's App Store. The Cydia shut down comes after Saurik's step to close the hub's ability to receive payments.
The Scope of Cydia Shut Down
Cydia's shutting down of payment functions covers future purchases that will be made for paid applications. iPhone users with iOS jailbroken devices may still take advantage of their previously downloaded apps.
The shutting down of the entire Cydia, on the other hand, covers all of its services provided for the iPhone users with iOS jailbroken devices. It is still unclear though if users may still be able to use the previously downloaded apps from Cydia.
Reasons Behind The Cydia's Ability To Accept Purchase Halt
Saurik's decision to shut down Cydia's ability to receive payments is the founder's corrective action after reports of the presence of a bug in the Cydia's Paypal system surfaced the internet. Freeman however assured that the bug did not affect anyone's Paypal account as it is not a data leak.
Saurik clarified that the bug can only affect one's Paypal account if an iPhone makes a purchase on the Cydia store using his Paypal account. As of the moment, there is no recorded purchase transaction on the Cydia store giving the assurance of safety to the users with iOS jailbroken devices taking advantage of the store's service.
The Cydia closure, on the other hand, comes months after Saurik made his first announcement of ending the app store service. After an unknown reason of delay on closure Freeman now makes it official that iPhone users with iOS jailbroken devices will no longer be able to do app piracy over the Cydia store soon.
Reasons Behind The Cydia Shut Down
Saurik declared that the lowering amount of iPhone users with iOS jailbroken devices using Cydia is the primary reason for his decision to shut down the service. He said that no one is buying anything from the store anymore.
On a statement he released, Saurik stressed out that maintaining the Cydia store cost him a lot of money, paying for the store's bandwidth from his own pocket. One possible reason on the store's sales decline he is looking at is the increased effort from Apple to assure that their iOS-powered iPhone devices are more and more if not completely jailbreak-free.
