14 DAY TRIAL // Hackulous, a community dedicated to plundering Apple's DRM and indexing unprotected iOS software, has announced an important achievement - the upcoming Mac App Store is cracked!
The folks at torrentfreak.com have posted a statement from Hackulous admin Dissident where he reveals that, by removing DRM from titles in the Mac App Store using a new tool called ‘Kickback,’ Hackulous will be able to offer the same kind of free download service for Mac as they do for iOS devices.
However, the folks at Hackulous are concerned that releasing Kickback around January 6th will mess things up for both developers and the end users.
So they’ll wait for when the time is right, Dissident says.
“We don’t want to release kickback as soon as the [Mac App] Store gets released. I have a few reasons for that,” Dissident said.
“Most of the applications that go on the Mac App Store [in the first instance] will be decent, they’ll be pretty good,” the admin added, according to torrentfreak.
“Apple isn’t going to put crap on the App Store as soon as it gets released. It’ll probably take months for the App Store to actually have a bunch of crappy applications and when we feel that it has a lot of crap in it, we’ll probably release Kickback,” Dissident explained.
“So we’re not going to release Kickback until well after the store’s been established, well after developers have gotten their applications up. We don’t want to devalue applications and frustrate developers.”
In related news, Apple developers indicate that a Mac OS X 10.6.6 software update tasked with adding Mac App Store support is to arrive momentarily, while a Mac version of the popular Cydia application is coming as well, Jay Freeman (Saurik) said at the 360|MacDev conference for developers.
Developed by Jay Freeman (also known as "saurik"), Cydia was originally released as an open-source alternative to Installer.app on iOS 1.1.x, but quickly became the most popular package manager upon the app’s 2.0 release.
Cydia allows users of a jailbroken iOS device to browse and download applications, themes, ringtones etc. that didn’t get Apple’s approval.