The very first iPhone release in 2007 featured a phone with certain programs on it, included by Apple, and no capacity to download others. But even at that time, people worked around those restrictions and created hacks that opened the phone to downloading of small applications, resulting in Apple developing the iPhone 3G, which officially did the same thing.
But many iPhone users think that in its insistence on keeping all iPhone development to itself, Apple has become arbitrary and controlling when it comes to the apps it rejects for its store.
It refuses to explain why apps are rejected, and even when it accepts an application, it can be weeks or even months before it appears in the store. As a result, those willing to do an iPhone hack have turned to another online store called Cydia. This site, operated by Jay Freeman, actually developed out of the earliest efforts to hack the original iPhone.
Those who jailbreak iPhone controls to allow downloading of non-Apple-authorized apps are not convinced the company's primary motivation is its customers' convenience and satisfaction.
Given that so many of Apple's moves appear designed to protect the profits and controls of its main American carrier, AT&T, many users think iPhone development is tailored to convenience the pocketbooks of others rather than their own usage.
As long as they perceive things this way, it's very likely that an application store like Cydia will continue to flourish.
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