Like a raven attracted to bright, shiny objects it’s hard to miss a headline like “The underground iPhone: Million-dollar jailbreaking industry thrives on legal loophole.”
The million dollar part sort of sticks in your craw.
Here’s the supporting evidence:
Early jailbreakers were inspired by rockstar-like fame, stardom, and the urge to test limits of creative ambition. Money followed in time and soon some of the jailbreaking vanguard started following money. Now iPhone jailbreaking is a multi-million dollar semi-underground business and there are legal loopholes that facilitate the growth of jailbreaking. (Emphasis ours.)
The story backs this up by citing figures that Cydia told the Washington Post ($10 million in annual revenue) and that there are “hordes of jailbreaking bandwagons which flourish on users’ demand for open-ended technologies that govern their choicest devices….including The Dev Team, MODMYI and THEMEIT…”
We’re still not sure that really supports the “million dollar jailbreaking industry” claim — that’s a heck of a lot of $20 MyWi.
How much would you say you spend on your jailbroken device?
Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco freelance writer who heads up Cult of Mac Magazine, our weekly publication available on iTunes. You can find her on Twitter and Google+. If you’re doing something new, cool and Apple-related, email her.
13 responses to “iPhone Jailbreaking a Million Dollar Business?”
I usually just use free stuff, but recently bought Infinifolders to clean up my one page of stuff.
I have spent around $30 for various jb apps.
RetinaPad is the best reason to jailbreak. I have spent around 30.00 also on jailbreak apps.
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That just means selling iOS tweaks/themes/apps via cydia is a million dollar business…
producing the jailbreaks themselves are still mostly for fun (also to provide a way for the “jailbreak developers” and others to access these things offered trough cydia), most of them (if not all?) don’t even have ads on their sites, the only money jailbreaking makes them are a donations and I highly doubt the amount to more than the salary of whatever work they have…
And as the article states, how can it amount to a million in sales on cydia? MyWi is the most expensive thing sold, everything else is very cheap, don’t think i know anything except of mywi that cost more than $5…
You should take a look at FolderEnhancer, much better (IMO), allows infinite apps in folders either free scrolling or pages horizontally or vertically, speeds up folder usage, allows putting folders in folders and more. I’ve been using it since it was released soon after infinifolder and never looked back (infinifolders could have got a lot better for all i know though :p)
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