Jay Freeman, developer of the Cydia software store for the iPhone, filed a lawsuit accusing the Apple App Store of being a monopoly. His company asks a U.S. District Court to force Apple to let iPhone ...

Cydia has this week announced that their Cydia apps have now passed 14 million monthly users using iOS 6.x devices, and has now more than 23 million overall users. For those new to Cydia apps, it’s a ...

Fans of customizing iPhones and owners of the iPhone 5 got a huge boost when the popular jailbreak tool evasi0n launched for iOS 6 in February. One month on, downloads continue to rain in as Cydia — ...

Cydia claims that Apple used its monopoly position of the App Store to push it out and ultimately render the jailbreaking store useless. Another lawsuit that parallels Epic Games' claims that Apple ...

Jay Freeman, the man behind the Cydia app store for jailbroken iPhones, has committed to developing an equivalent jailbreak store for Macs. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

Back in 2008, Jay Freeman first released Cydia as an app store designed for the iPhone, offering apps a few months before Apple had its own App Store. Since then, Cydia has served as an app repository ...

Cydia is somewhat of jailbreak equivalent of the App Store for iOS devices. It enables users to find and install open source packages as well as buy special modifications made for jailbroken ...

For years, iOS users who wanted to use their devices without the constraints imposed by Apple have been jailbreaking their devices in order to install software from outside of the Apple App Store ...

A new lawsuit from the creator of jailbroken iOS app store Cydia claims Apple used anti-competitive tactics that froze out Cydia and other would-be rivals when it created its App Store. Apple, the ...

The Cydia Mobile Substrate, a framework that allows the developers to modify the software code even without source code, surprisingly arrives for the Android platform. Apple iPhone owners are well ...