Unauthorized Web-based app store coming soon to iPhone [video]

By on May 2, 2011 at 5:19 PM
mobile May 2, 2011

Jailbroken iOS users will soon have a new option for browsing and installing unsanctioned apps on their devices. A group of iPhone developers known as the Infini Dev Team is currently preparing to release a Web-based alternative to the popular Cydia app store, which will allow users to browse and install applications from within the Safari browser. Dubbed “lima,” the new app store will compete directly with Cydia — and with Apple’s App Store, of course — and it will provide both free and paid applications. It will also be repository-based, and will feature an integrated back up and restoring system to simplify the reinstallation process when users update their iOS software or switch phones. Hit the break for a video of lima in action.

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  • Anonymous

    apple is going to find a way to suck some blood out of this

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

      I can see the handwriting on the wall as well.

    • http://www.bignerdblog.com BigNerd

      How? Wouldn’t Apple go after Cydia first?

  • Jason

    I hope they plan on working on that interface.. It pales in comparison to Cydia right now and I think it’d be a huge flop just like Icy.

    • Generatione

      Cydia is all ready pretty bad…

    • Anonymous

      Dude Cydia itself is a huge flop. How many ppl actually use Cydia anyways?

      • Jason

        Just.. every jailbroken iPhone user.

      • sirpaul

        Apptrackr is where it’s at?

      • m404

        you do realize this (and Cydia) are sources for Apps that, usually, never even have been submitted to the official AppStore?

        There are very few exceptions (Apps pulled from the AppStore and later re-released on Cydia) that are available on Apptrackr, but mainly (99.9%) it’s the plain same Apps u find on the AppStore, u just don’t have to pay for it.
        Comparing Cydia with Apptrackr is like comparing SourceForge with warez sites … ridiculous if anything.

  • Anonymous

    The iPhone Jailbroken is still the best phone on the market.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

      Keep telling your self that.

      • Anonymous

        It’s just an opinion, relax…

      • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

        Opinions unless favorable about droid and negative about apple are flawed. Sorry.

      • Anonymous

        And you keep telling yourself Android does not suck, lag and fragmented when you get your new phone and 2 weeks later it can run the new Android iOs. No system is perfect. iOS is the most polished and once Jailbroken, close to prefect.

        Android does a lot of nice stuff that iOS should have done years ago and will do in iOS 5. Its getting the and could surpass iOS one day, one day. But its fragmented, slow and lagging at times and VERY unpolished. But that’s what you get for a open ecosystem with developers who don’t care and make more money for IOS and find it easier and better programming.

        Now go back to Mommy’s basement and but some more acne creme or a new pocket protector.

    • Biggles

      Too bad the hardware is a hodge podge of 2008 and cutting edge.

  • Anonymouse

    Web based eh? Cydia already *is web based*, it’s just a set of web views..

  • Gls54

    WHO CARES???????

  • Anonymous

    After almost 5 years, iPhone owners will now have what Android users have had from the start.

    This changes everything… again.

  • Anonymous

    What’s it going to be called?
    iWeb-based app store??

  • Steel

    I’m really not trying to hate here, but isn’t this process going to be a bit complicated for Apple users? I mean, that’s what they prize, simplicity. Having to occasionally reinstall software and such through a 3rd party will be more work than they typically want to do. I thought that’s what they paid Apple for. Purchasing a product and working around its idiosyncrasies is more of what PC users do.

  • Anonymous

    ROCK4LIFE!!!

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