Cydia Acquiring Rock your Phone [Rock.app]

If you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you might have heard about Cydia and Rock.app. They are both stores (the same as App Store) for 3rd party apps, themes, tweaks and everything you may want for your iPhone. Cydia was developed by Jay Freeman a.k.a Saurik, and registered under SaurikIT, LLC and is owned by Jay Freeman, and Rock.app is registered under Rock Your Phone, Inc and is owned by Mario Ciabarra.

Cydia was launched back in February, 2008 and Rock.app was launched later. Over the last two month, Jay Freeman & Mario Ciabarra was making a deal that has been finalized today. Cydia is acquiring Rock, in other words "Cydia Rocks".

After 10 days from now, most of the apps, tweaks, themes over at Rock.app will now be moved to Cydia, also users purchased apps from Rock.app will need to log in to Cydia to retrieve their purchased apps.

Honestly, I'm not satisfied with Rock.app as much as Cydia, but I was really surprised with the number below posted on Rock your Phone news:

• Number of Developers with apps listed in the Rock Store: 124 (from 19 countries)
• Unique iOS devices that installed Rock: 4.6 million (from 220 countries/territories) - Wow that is a lot of places!
• Registered Rock Users: 2+ million
• Number of App licenses sold: 500,000
• Users of who took the plunge and bought something: 280,000 (from 185 countries)
• Total Rock Your Phone Store revenue (March 12th, 2009 - September 2010): $3.3+ million
• Number of Rock Employees (we are using the word employee loosely here but, hey, it is our company): 9

Pretty impressive.. Isn’t it? Well, merging of the communities will bring a lot of benefits especially that users don't like the ads everywhere in Rock.app. [via Modmyi]

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Upcoming Comex Jailbreak seems to be Released Today

Quick heads up, someone published this image on the web, we don't know it's source but it's seems not fake! Comex mentioned in his podcast interview that he is waiting for saurik to finish Cydia bootstrap, the screenshot below shows a message from saurik saying that he already gave the bootstrap to comex.

I actually gave comex the bootstrap he needed last night. so I am no longer the bottleneck. (The concept of “bottleneck” is very transient.)

It seems really close, may be it will be released today and Sunday be the FunDay? Absolutely they are running a group of tests on all devices to be sure it's safe and excellent to be released for public, so Stay tuned!
Update 1: JailbreakME from Comex is out, Check here.

Jailbreak iPhone 4 on iOS 4.x is "Pretty Close to Done"

Good News to get the hopes up, in an all-star podcast interview with Comex, Planetbeing, Chpwn, and Saurik yesterday, Comex was asked "When is the iPhone 4 Jailbreak and Unlock is going to be released?", the answer was great "pretty close to done"

Question: When is the iPhone 4 Jailbreak and Unlock is going to be released?

Comex: You will have to ask Saurik if he’s done with that bootstrap yet. Like I hate to say this because people will be complaining, but it is pretty close to done.

PlanetBeing: Unlock is done. Just waiting for the jailbreak to be released.

Chpwn: The jailbreak definitely needs a lot of testing before it is released, to make sure it works on everybody’s phone, and that there are no issues like Spirit had where it deleted all of your photos in the first few days of the release.

[via Redmondpie]
So here's What to Do to get Ready for the Jailbreak!
First, Save SHSH of iOS 4.0.1 Using TinyUmbrella for iPhone 4 / 3GS / iPod Touch 3G and Using Cydia for iPhone 3G / iPod Touch 2G
Second, Backup your Data in Case the Jailbreak has some issues (Save photos, contacts and videos)
Third, Follow me on Twitter, Become a fan on Facebook or Subscribe via Mail / RSS to be the First who Jailbreak.

So not to ask me, This jailbreak will work on any iDevice in the world, This jailbreak will be able to jailbreak iPhone 4 / 3GS New and Old Bootroms / 3G - iPod Touch 3G / 2G MC and Non-MC Models on iOS 4.x, Also for iPad on iOS 3.2.1

Saurik Showing us a Jailbroken iPhone 4

Jay Free Man, known as Saurik, who is the creator of Cydia on Jailbroken iPhone. Now he joined the Make It Work team and Showed us a jailbroken iPhone 4, It's a real jailbroken iPhone 4.

Also Planetbeing showed us an Unlocked iPhone 4 with Cydia App List on it! So, it seems really near. Stay Tuned! [via FSM]