Apple must have heaved a great sigh of relief when it heard its Christmas wish had been answered — Installous, the jailbroken iOS app pirating service from the Hackulous community, was finally dead. But not so fast, Apple. Now anyone can install pirated apps, and without having to jailbreak too. Uh oh.
The old adage is holding true. Where one pirate bites the dust, two more grow to take its place. The problem for Apple this time round is that both the Zeusmos and Kuaiyong services allow one-tap, instant installs of pirated apps on any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. No jailbreak is required; just install the apps directly on your iOS device of choice. One has the gall to charge you for an installer app, unless you’re jailbroken — yep, charging you to install pirated apps you could just have bought in the first place — while one just installs from a web app.
Getting in contact with TNW, one of the services’ developers, a 15-year-old thorn in Apple’s side, says that it’s actually just a way to allow homebrew apps without having to fork out for a yearly Apple developer account. But let’s not kid ourselves here; this is piracy straight up and simple. Apple better get its act in gear because piracy via jailbreak is one thing, but piracy without having to root the system — that’s something Apple should definitely have its knickers in a twist over. [TNW]













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If it allows stuff that Apple would deny like Flash Player then great, Apple only loses customers by having such a restricted OS. So many people I know bought iPads as a Laptop replacement not knowing what these tablets really are. What I find funny is they all go back to their Laptops because you cannot do simple things with a tablet like download files or watch flash content.
Everyone keeps trying to kill Flash but it never seems to go away.
I lost Flash in Android 4.2 but managed to side load the .apk to bring it back.
Why are you so desperate to hold on to flash? Surely all the porn sites use HTML 5 now.
Regrettably not!
Anyone who steals a 69p-£1.99 app needs to have he s*it kicked out of them.
I have to entirely agree with this. There’s really no excuse.
More to the point anyone who can afford a £300 to £600 device but not the pennies for the apps, needs to be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
but it’s a lower perceived value so i can see why to a pirate a £10 app is equally game as a 69p one
I’d like to try full apps before I buy them but sadly Apple does not support full trial or any refunds like Google Play. So the only way for someone like me is to install the pirated apps and play around with it, if I like it, I buy it and if not delete it.
Demo and Lite versions are so limited!
But as others pointed out if you can afford a £600 device, you should be able to manage 69p-£1.99 app.