Cydia for iPad: Freedom from the App Store

04 Jun 2010 | Advice | Ali Gorelova on Google+

Cydia, named after an insect which infects the apples, is a software app which has been designed by Jay Freeman to let people all over the world to download many great applications for their jailbroken iPhone, iPod touch and now iPad.

Cydia has a friendly interface. It is easy to use allowing iPad users to download Cydia apps which are mostly free (sometimes paid) and can’t be found at the official App store. You can download iPad Cydia applications directly to your iPad. Besides this, users can enjoy this app for their open-source program installation tools that were created for Linux including APT and dpkg management system.

When you want to download an application that is blocked by the official App store, you can use Cydiato reach your goal. Moreover, this or that iPad app will be downloaded to the same location as pre-installed apps by Apple go. This location is /Applications/directory.

Cydia for iPad works very similarly to Installer. You can quickly get and run with this newer software. Program’s interface has a bar of buttons in the bottom. This gives you access to the various main screens of the app.

App store doesn’t approve every single iPad application that is submitted to the store. So what developers do is they add their apps in sources that you can access through APT. And using Cydia you are able to directly install those applications on your device.

Users are allowed to add sources to APT and select download locations of source packs (iPad apps). These packs for jailbroken iPad often work on a deeper level than applications approved by Apple as you are able to access the file system and hardware of downloaded program. This way any application can be installed on your Apple’s tablet, of course, if you first jailbreak your iPad using Spirit.

Since 2009 most developers are allowed to sell their apps via Cydia. Thus if you want to buy iPad Cydia apps you have to pay for them using PayPal or Amazon Payments.

Unlike official Apple iPad apps being controlled by DRM, Cydia doesn’t act the same way unless developers decide to use their own protective measures. Your payment is linked to either Facebook account or Google. In this way it will still be proved even when you start using a new device or decide to un-jailbreak your iPad.

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