The Cydia app store has been the place that those with jailbroken iPhones have flocked to for apps that Apple wouldn’t have in its app store, so the end to purchases feels like the beginning of the end of an era.
Following a security issue that would allow hackers to buy apps using other people’s accounts, Cydia app store creator Jay Freeman (who goes by the name of Saurik) has pulled the plug on purchases through the store.
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Writing on Reddit, Freeman had this to say:
But, as Freeman points out, the writing was already on the wall for paid apps in the Cydia store.
