Cydia für iOS 6 beta 1 – Saurik sauer

Saurik ist sauer! Nach der Veröffentlichung der Anleitung nebst Download Link wie man Cydia nach dem iOS 6 beta Jailbreak installiert (Anleitung Cydia iOS 6 installieren) hat saurik aka Jay Freeman seinen Unmut darüber ausgedrückt. iOS 6 beta ist NUR für Entwickler und diese brauchen kein Cydia!

Mit einer offiziellen Installationsanleitung für Cydia unter iOS 6 beta würde man Piracy unterstützen, denn dadurch würden praktisch auch Nicht-Entwickler zur iOS 6 beta Installation aufgefordert. Die meisten Jailbreak Tweaks und Apps funktionieren sowieso noch nicht richtig unter dem iOS 6 beta Jailbreak (nur tethered Jailbreak für iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS und iPod touch 4G).

Pakete und Tweaks können Entwickler auch ohne Cydia – letztendlich nur ein apt Aufsatz – zu Test-Zwecken installieren. (Siehe auch unser Artikel Cydia Pakete mit Apt installieren unter iOS). Eine Notwendigkeit für Cydia unter iOS 6 beta ist für Entwickler also nicht gegeben.

Saurik ist nach dieser Aktion GEGEN erneute Jailbreak Releases für iOS Beta-Versionen. WyndWarrior, der das Cydia Paket zur Installation veröffentlich hat, habe hierzu weder Rat beim Betreiber Saurik gesucht noch angefragt.

Den kompletten Wortlaut von Sauriks Kommentar zum Cydia iOS 6 beta Release findet ihr direkt unter dem Ausgangspost im iDownloadBlog Artikel hier oder nachfolgend als Zitat.

Wir können hier saurik nur zustimmen – natürlich ist Cydia ein Argument FÜR den Jailbreak – und leider jetzt auch ein Argument für die (illegale) Nutzung von iOS 6 beta für Nicht-Developer. Diskutiert werden kann hier im Blog oder in unserer Facebook Community!

From the perspective of many of the community developers, this is very disappointing, and it is exceptionally so that WyndWarrior (in particular) did this without getting on IRC and asking any questions before deciding to post this build publicly.

In essence, when Cydia runs on a build of iOS, it causes massive end user adoption of that firmware version. Developers, on the other hand, do not need, nor do they often even care about, Cydia on their system: they use apt.

What this means for beta builds of the firmware is that there is then rampant piracy of Apple’s firmware and flagrant violation of Apple’s developer account terms of service. This is obviously something we have the goal to minimize.

Meanwhile, developers in Cydia then begin to receive large numbers of complaints about things available in Cydia that don’t work yet; something that is exceptionally silly, as the firmware is still itself a moving and buggy target.

In fact, in the case of iOS 5.0 ignoring b1 was actually the most correct thing for developers: by b3, Apple had fixed many of the bugs that were happening–yes, even in our jailbreak-specific projects–by the later betas.

Thereby, all of the major developers, the repositories, and many of the people working on jailbreaks themselves (certainly most of those that were around at the time)… we all were incredibly happy when Cydia didn’t work on iOS 6b1.

The argument is that, without a working version of Cydia, this beta firmware jailbreak can be released publicly, but will only get adoption by developers, not end users; we, in essence, do not have to worry about these aforementioned problems.

So, despite a number of hesitations and arguments, even those most strongly against releasing jailbreaks for beta versions of iOS reluctantly withdrew their complaints about a release of common jailbreaks, such as redsn0w, for iOS 6b1.

After all, with a more public jailbreak process, it does become easier for many developers to update their software throughout the betas. The last component missing, Cydia, could then be released only with a jailbreak for “the real firmware”.

Sadly, however, the result seems to be that we cannot actually trust the extended developer community. It took only two or three days for someone not realizing the delicate balance to opt for some publicity and release a replacement Cydia build. *sigh*

This means that many of us, certainly me, will now be registering a strong “no” when it comes to a public release of any future jailbreak for beta releases of iOS (and “absolutely not” for b1), whether or not Cydia operates.