Cydia Store available for jailbroken iPhones

For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the ability to get any type of application on your iPhone, Cydia lead Saurik/Jay Freeman has delivered. The Cydia App Store, which is now available through jailbroken iPhones, has been released and promises to provide all sorts of applications that Apple may not (such as tethering). The store is currently only accepting payments through Amazon Payments, but Freeman has said that PayPal is on its way. Freeman hopes that having less apps on his store will make it easier to find apps that people truly want, compared to the over 15,000 on the legitimate App Store.

Smoking Apples has a nice write-up on their site about their experience in the store (my phone is not jailbroken, so I don’t have any firsthand experience with it). According to them, the store, once you get acknowledge that it doesn’t look as professional as Apple’s, works quite nicely. He goes on to add that there are price tags of “… $1 and not the tricky $0.99 pricetag policy that the App Store has.” The only minor issue (or major, depending on your personality) with the site that they discuss is not knowing whether your payments are going over a secure server.