Cydia poised to merge with Rock Your Phone

September 11, 2010

There’s one and a half of, Rock your Cellphone used to be rising to compete with the App Retailer. Not like its competitor, it needed to have a jailbroken iPhone to succeed in them. The version used to be the identical as the shop for apps as a result of Apple needed to first create an account after which make purchases but additionally functions of issues. The benefit of this platform was once its pace, and the truth that each utility will be examined for 10 days.

For several months, the creator of Rock your Phone (Mario Ciabarra) and Cydia Store (Jay Freeman) are working on a big project that has just been released: Cydia acquires Rock Your Phone.

The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but here's what it means for you: Rock.app close its doors. There will be a transitional period of 10 days, where users can buy / download applications and licenses in Rock. After that, users should use Cydia to find their apps purchased.The vast majority of themes / apps on the rock will be moved Saurik shop (there's already a lot).

Cydia of course benefit from the features of Rock, and should also be faster.

Rock The application is:

124 developers (19 countries)
4.6 million devices in the IOS installed applications (in 220 countries)
More than 2 million registered users
500 000 license applications sold
280 000 users have purchased an app / theme (in 185 in)
From March 12, 2009 to September 10, 2010 the platform has earned more than $ 3.3 million
Only 9 employees