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Competition vs. Community
by forwardslash

    Every year or so, someone announces a new "Cydia competitor". Almost always, these projects either never come to fruition, are nothing like how they were portrayed before release, or don't actually offer much of value over the existing solutions: they tend to disappear as quickly as they were announced.

    Most of the them start from a common premise: that SaurikIT (my company behind Cydia) is not effectively monetizing our ecosystem, in particular for "end users", and that they see a "market opportunity". I think a lot of people find my reaction to this kind of competition confusing, so I'm writing an article to address that.