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Cydia has sued Apple over the iOS and iPadOS App Store

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Apple has been accumulating certain lawsuits for some time for monopolistic behavior and actions. Most of them are based on the policies of the App Store and access to the operating system itself. And today we learned of a new lawsuit against Apple.

This is a lawsuit promoted by the creator of Cydia Cydia was a well-known "app" a long time ago and it will sound familiar to many of you . This is the alternative app store to the App Store that could be installed on iPhones and iPads performed with the jailbreak of the device.

Cydia lawsuit is based on Apple's "blocking" third-party stores from accessing iPhones and iPads:

While it currently seems possible to jailbreak the iPhone and iPad, it is a practice that many users have been neglecting . And, with fewer jailbreaks taking place, Cydia has lost the notoriety it once had.

But, since it's still around, its creator has decided to start a lawsuit against Apple. This lawsuit is based on the impossibility of third-party app stores to access and be able to be installed on the numerous devices of Apple.

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In other words, unlike other lawsuits complaining about access policies to the App Store and commissions, Cydia demands the inaccessibility of the operating system itself so that other app stores can be installed and apps downloaded from unverified sites like the one itself Cydia

We cannot know how this matter will end and if the lawsuit will finally be accepted and, in that case, the creator of Cydia can win. Although it does seem at least hilarious as a platform that took advantage of vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS and one of its main functions was to download paid apps for free, has decided to sue Apple