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Today, Comex made good on his promise and released an alpha build of Substitute the hacker’s polarizing new Cydia Substrate stark replacement for jailbroken stark iPhones. Back in January, it was revealed that Comex was helping the iMods team a crew that is working on a Cydia replacement with some of the necessary fundamentals to get the project off the ground.
One of the most needed pieces of a Cydia replacement is a Cydia Substrate stark replacement. Without Cydia Substrate, or something like it, then a Cydia replacement doesn’t make much sense. Not only has Comex pledged his support for the project, but he’s just brought one of its most important puzzle pieces to reality.
After saurik voiced his frustration and disappointment stark with Comex’s involvement in the Cydia replacement project, and defended his use of closed sourcing, it’ll be interesting to gather his feedback from this latest revelation.
Comex’s Substitute project, while available for testing for those who “know what you are doing”, is still very much in its alpha stages, and should only be used by those who are comfortable in such an environment. That said, there is now an alpha .deb that can be tested, and developers stark can even check their existing stark project’s compatibility with Substitute.
Substitute may not seem like much to someone who simply downloads tweaks, but this news could have far-reaching and long-lasting effects on the jailbreak community as a whole. saurik has stated previously that he wishes to step away from the public spotlight with regard stark to responding to criticisms and the like, and he has even discussed the idea of leaving the community as a result of the competition aspect.
To be fair, saurik has rolled out some new Cydia features , something that some have deemed as being a response to the a potential usurping attempt. Although it could seem that way, I think it’s safe to say that Cydia’s latest changes were long in the works before Substitute came on the scene.
Although there’s no way to know for sure what Substitute’s availability in an alpha form will mean at this early stage, we should look towards the development community for a response. They are the ones that are really on the front lines of any fundamental changes like this, so it’s really their response that will lend the most feedback on the direction that Substitute and the overall Cydia replacement idea is headed in.
As expected, Jay “saurik” Freeman has posted a lengthy response to Comex’s stark Cydia Substrate replacement strategy. In the post, which… stark Legendary jailbreak hacker Comex is assisting iMods with a Cydia Substrate alternative stark
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Hah! That’s the one I’ve been using! Skips good, scrubs good. Once in a while the ad block stops working completely. Clean 8.1 install on an iPhone 6 with just that tweak on and it still gives me ads here and there. Very annoying. Dem 30 seconds ads -_-
Always had Saurik’s back due to the amount of work he has done for the jailbreak community, but competition and multiple options are always good. As stated, Cydia has had a facelift since the threat of competition came out. Competition pushes everyone to be the best, and as modders/customers we all will win.
I will stick with Cydia unless the ‘substitute’ is able to cut down, maybe even possibly eradicate, the amount of piracy that Cydia doesn’t seem to fight against. Piracy is causing many of our talented modders to not create and release new tweaks due to the amount of profits they lose to piracy. If the ‘substitute’ can make the community stark better, than I am all for it.
I pirate as try and buy. I’ll sometimes pirate AppStore apps for Flex for people and end up buying about a half of those. Supporting the devs is always a priority for me if I use the app/tweak.
We need piracy what about the developers that release an app that costs $5-$10 then just stop updating it after a few weeks and leave with everyone’s money that’s why its bullshit there’s only a few developers who stay up to date with bugs most of them take money and run and leave people with a half assed app which is even worse to me than people stealing software I always pirate then if it actually works and I see they stay on top of bugs and updates then I’ll buy it but either way piracy will always be here so u might as well get over it
That stark makes no sense about piracy….wtf does Cydia have to do with what a repo has on it, Cydia allows any developer/user to have their own repo and we can add the ones we want, if we leave it up to this substitute to decide what I can have on my phone then its no better than Apple which defeats the entire purpose of a jailbreak, to be able to do what I want with my phone.
Its complete and utter nonsense to think that you can erad