What Happened To Cydia's Founder? (Saurik)

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Do you guys remember Cydia? 10 years ago, it was the extremely popular 3rd party app store for jailbroken apple devices. It carried all of the classic tweaks from Zepplin to Eclipse allowing us to finally mod our Apple devices. However, over the years, the popularity of jailbreaking has fallen off a cliff. In fact, according to Google Trends, interest in jailbreaking is 20X lower today than it was in 2013. Cydia was actually shut down due to this rapidly declining interest a few years ago. While this is quite unfortunate, it leaves one big question open: What happened to Cydia’s founder Jay Freeman? Well, Jay has pursued a career in politics in his college town of Santa Barbara. He’s currently serving on the board of directors at the Isla Vista community services district. However, he does still talk about jailbreaking and reverse engineering software in his free time. This video explains the story of Jay Freeman (Saurik) and what happened to Cydia.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Cydia
1:28 - Jay Freeman
4:11 - Founding Cydia
6:53 - Apple Strikes Back
9:30 - Jay Freeman Today

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[exoticbutters]

Yeah, I remember Cydia. People don't give GeoHotz and Cydia enough credit for helping Apple achieve the level of success it did with the iPhone. You had Android fanatics buying iPhone back then just to jailbreak it. Jailbreaking had an impact on iPhone adoption no doubt. And kudos to Apple for allowing users to restore from iTunes when they accidentally bricked their phones or no longer wanted the jailbreak. Those were the days.

[harveyprobz]

Having a jailbroken iPod touch in the 8th grade back in 2008-2009 made me the man. I had it all. Game emulators, custom live wallpapers, custom notifications, custom apps, paid apps for free. I had more flexibility back then than they give us now and they’ve given us a decent amount over the years. All I can say is, what a time to be alive.

[SkyMine]

I was so obsessed with jailbreaking back in my teenage years. Definitely made our devices feels more alive having both the simplicity of IOS software and the freedom of an android OS.

[reisemoran]

it’s so crazy how apple competed rather than trying to team up with/learn from such a creative community. jailbreaking as a whole really impacted the way apple conceptualized the devices.

[UATU.]

It feels good to see a positive ending. I honestly expected the standard script outline that concludes with criminal charges and a morality lesson. Thank you for knocking my cynicism back down.

[joel]

I remember jailbreaking my ipod 4 as a kid, it made me so happy and proud that just seing the cydia logo on the thumbnail put me in a good mood

[KarlRock]

I used to jailbreak for the extra features, but then I got too paranoid about security and stopped.

[Macrbi]

I have huge respect for Cydia, since the my first iPhone 3 released, it wasn't supporting Arabic language and was locked to US Carrier, and as you can guess Cydia provided the solution for this and I was happily using my iPhone in 2009 before anyone else in Kuwait :)

[iKayorei]

The main thing that made me lose interest in jailbreaking was having to wait for a newer verison of ios to be jailbroken before I could update and eventually Apple started adding alot of the features that people were jailbreaking for.

[bobbyrowlett]

Thank you Jay for a major highlight of my high school years. I used to jailbreak everything I owned plus other’s devices and everyone loved it.

[aram]

if it wasn’t for jailbreaking. Apple would have never sold this many phones. and it even helped Apple to make their software better.

[iosifd]

Cydia was really powerfull between iOS 2 and iOS 7, a lots of tweaks, the posibility to unlock carriers, themes, downgrading, I think currently the jailbreak doesn't offer anymore that much flexibility as how it was back in the time .

[skyMcWeeds]

Without Cydia, Apple would still be resting on their laurels and not improve IOS that much at all.

[YourfaveNPC]

OGs will remember Installer, before Cydia even existed.

[danialothman]

I almost forgot I created a soundboard app, and host it on Cydia, it was my first iOS app. Thanks Jay!

[lapissea]

I remember when i used to run iphones. I considered an iphone downright unusable without a jailbreak. I could not back up my game saves. I could not have file access. There was no over local network file sharing/streaming with my pc. I could not have many basic features. Apple would not let me install older apps that had no ads. The customization was... well non existent.
There was no "I know what I'm doing" button. For example I remember apple would hide wifi hotspots that show when they have low quality signal. There was a package that would disable that and I could actually connect to my wifi.
I stopped using iphones when jailbreaks became tethered only.

[WilliamPetersen]

I remember Cydia very well. I owned the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 and 4S and each one of them was running the Jailbreak software with Cydia loaded onto it. I will say that thanks to Cydia, I could run apps that would allow me to access the iPhone's file system and clear out temp files that was just taking up space. This improved performance and reliability of these iPhones back then. Cydia also unlocked customizations on the iPhone that was not possible on the official iOS. Those were awesome times indeed.

[Cyko..]

I use to jailbreak all the time and then developers started blocking you from using their app if it knew you were jailbroken, like Nintendo and Niantic. Bypass apps wouldn't help. Also, my phone's battery would drain pretty fast, even without moving backgrounds and such.

When Apple started releasing some of the features I liked from jailbreaking, I no longer needed to jailbreak, and no longer have to worry if an app is going to work or not, and I can usually come home from work from an 8-hour shift with about 80% battery left.

[harveybolton]

So he created Cydia because Apple wouldn't allow the Cycorder app on the App Store, yet Cydia was created before the App Store?

[Willholland]

I've jailbroken as many versions of iOS as I could. Seeing that redsnow screen brought me back to the good 'ol days when I first jailbroke my iPod touch 4g