什么是 Cydia 应用商店以及如何使用它？

Cydia是Apple iOS设备的替代应用商店。它允许您查找和加载未经Apple(Apple)批准的应用程序和内容。要启用Cydia应用商店，您需要“越狱”您的 iOS 设备。如果这些对您来说都没有意义，请不要担心。我们将看看Cydia App Store是什么以及它是如何使用的。

Apple采用通常被称为“围墙花园”的方法在手机和平​​板电脑上提供第三方内容和软件。你可能不知道，第一款 iOS 设备 iPhone 是在没有应用商店的情况下推出的！今天很难想象，但当时第三个应用程序支持并不是他们优先考虑的事项。

如今，App Store中的应用程序数量简直是惊人的，而且很容易忘记，这些应用程序中的每一个都必须得到Apple的批准。当然，Google Play 商店(Google Play Store)也有审批流程，但您可以完全自由地从其他店面获取您的应用程序或自行手动加载。Apple并非如此，它限制了用户可以通过各种方式使用他们的硬件和软件进行的操作。

围墙花园方法既有优点也有缺点，但是Apple不允许在其系统上使用整类应用程序。视频游戏模拟器(Video game emulators)和虚拟机应用程序(virtual machine apps)就是两个例子。你也不会在 iOS 上找到任何BitTorrent客户端。(BitTorrent)在Android设备上，你可以安装任何你喜欢的软件，但苹果(Apple)用户的生活感觉就像一个镀金的笼子。

顾名思义，越狱消除了这些限制。通常，这是通过利用 Apple 软件安全性的弱点来实现的。一般来说，如果您遵循良好的在线指南，越狱您的 iOS 设备并不难。然而，它也不是我们所说的适合完全初学者的东西。

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对您自己的设备进行自定义和更改是一回事。如果您选择在 iOS 设备上运行未经批准的自制应用程序，也不会伤害任何人。但是，Cydia应用商店也允许盗版，因为您可以下载和使用已被剥夺版权保护的应用程序。

人们安装Cydia的一个常见原因是免费玩iOS 游戏(iOS games)或获得有用的应用程序，例如视频编辑器，这可能会花费大量金钱。没有两种方法，盗版是非法的，它会剥夺那些应用程序开发人员编写、更新和维护应用程序所需的资金。因此，如果您可以为应用付费，我们强烈建议您这样做。

虽然使用Cydia无疑是一种自由体验，但自由是有代价的。事实上有几个。首先(First)，Apple可能不会对你带来一个已经越狱并加载了质量控制系统之外的软件的砖块设备过于友好。根据您所在国家/地区的消费者保护法，他们可能无论如何都必须为您提供帮助，但您应该仔细考虑通过篡改您的 iOS 设备可能会放弃什么。

第二个主要风险是恶意软件(malware)。当您绕过Apple实施的保护措施时，病毒、木马、跟踪器和更多恶意软件是完全可能的。如果您在设备上加载破解或自制应用程序，它们可能会充满恶意代码。

下一个风险可能不是大多数用户考虑的。这更像是一个严重的缺点，但仍然值得一提。如果您使用Cydia盗版应用程序，您将与该开发人员的官方支持断绝关系。

如果您突破这些限制， Apple(Apple)设备以流畅和方便而著称的整个用户体验就会失去大量光彩。您需要做更多的手动工作以使系统和应用程序保持最新状态，并且可能需要等待数周或数月才能获得需要首先越狱的更新。

正如您所料，Apple从未对越狱或Cydia等替代商店感到满意。如果您使用Cydia应用程序商店进行盗版，那么您肯定站在公司和各种应用程序开发人员的错误一边。如果您超出其批准的权限而弄乱了您的设备，请不要指望Apple提供任何支持。(Apple)

在Apple(Apple)的员工和使越狱和外部应用程序安装成为可能的人之间，一直存在持续的军备竞赛。随着每一次新的 iOS 更新和每一次新硬件的发布，Apple都会试图填补在最新一轮黑客攻击中发现的漏洞。

出于显而易见的原因，我们不会发布分步越狱指南或有关如何使用Cydia的说明。相反，我们将概述人们如何使用Cydia，它在实践中是如何工作的，以及所涉及的内容。

如果您愿意，可以在互联网上找到任何数量的指南。与往常一样，您跟随他们需要您自担风险。这是基本过程：

Cydia应用程序商店带有各种“资源”，它们是应用程序的存储库。如果您想要的应用程序不在标准源中，那么您可以添加它们。这就是盗版问题出现的地方，也是Cydia本身可以洗手的地方。此备用应用商店中的默认来源均未启用盗版。这是用户自己在个人层面上引入的东西。

通过在Google(Google)上搜索可以找到来源。它们以URL（网址）的形式出现，您可以将其复制到Cydia列出的课程中。

我们绝不会假设告诉您要做出什么样的决定，尤其是在他们是明智的决定的情况下。很多人越狱了他们的 iOS 设备，使用Cydia应用商店，并且对结果非常满意。我们是否建议大多数用户这样做？绝对不。

我们还强烈建议不要使用您唯一的关键任务设备沿着这条路线走。最好在您买得起砖的辅助设备上尝试越狱和Cydia 。就像旧的iPad或 iPod Touch。

越狱(Jailbreaking)可以让你用你的 iOS 设备做各种各样的事情，比如在它上面运行其他操作系统或者改变苹果(Apple)不允许我们接触的设备界面的各个方面。越狱(Jailbreaking)具有合法的应用程序，就像修改游戏机以允许自制软件是人们学习编码或使用计算机系统的重要部分一样。但是，如果您越狱或使用像Cydia这样的应用程序的唯一原因是盗版，我们不能说这是一个很好的理由。

最后，您必须做出自己的决定。了解风险和收益，权衡它们并决定这是否是您想要做的事情。您还应该知道，有多种Cydia 替代品(Cydia alternatives) 可供选择。

Cydia is an alternative app store for Apple iOS devices. It allows you to find and load applications and content that isn’t approved by Apple. To enable the Cydia app store, you need to “jailbreak” your iOS device. If none of this makes sense to you, don’t worry. We’re going to look at what the Cydia App Store is and how it’s used.

Apple has what’s often referred to as a “walled garden” approach to offering third-party content and software on their phones and tablets. You may not know this, but the first iOS device, the iPhone, launched with no app store at all! It’s hard to imagine it today, but third application support was not at the top of their list of priorities back then.

Today the number of apps in the App Store is simply staggering and it’s easy to forget that every single one of these apps has to be approved by Apple. Of course, Google Play Store also has an approval process, but you’re completely free to get your apps from another storefront or to manually load it yourself. Not so with Apple, which limits what users can do in various ways with their hardware and software.

The walled garden approach has both pros and cons, but there are entire classes of applications that Apple just doesn’t allow on their systems. Video game emulators and virtual machine apps are two examples. You won’t find any BitTorrent clients on iOS either. On an Android device you can install any software you like, but the life of an Apple user can feel like a gilded cage.

Jailbreaking, as the name suggests, removes those restrictions. Usually, this is done by exploiting a weakness in Apple’s software security. In general, jailbreaking your iOS device isn’t hard if you follow a good online guide. However, it’s also not what we’d call appropriate for complete beginners.

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Making customizations and changes to your own devices is one thing. It’s also not hurting anyone if you choose to run unapproved homebrew applications on your iOS device. However, The Cydia app store also enables piracy since you can download and use applications that have been stripped of their copyright protection.

One common reason people install Cydia is to play iOS games for free or to get useful apps such as video editors which might cost a significant amount of money. There are no two ways about it, piracy is illegal and it robs those app developers of the money they need to write, update and maintain their apps. So, if you can pay for apps we strongly advocate that you should.

While using Cydia is certainly a freeing experience, freedom comes with a price. Several in fact. First of all, Apple might not look too kindly on you bringing in a bricked device that has been jailbroken and loaded with software outside of their quality control system. Depending on the consumer protection laws in your country, they may have to help you regardless, but you should carefully consider what you may be giving up by tampering with your iOS device.

The second major risk is malware. Viruses, trojans, trackers, and more nasties are entirely possible when you circumvent the protections that Apple has put in place. If you load cracked or homebrew apps on your device they may be filled with malicious code.

The next risk might not be one most users consider. It’s more like a serious downside, but it’s still worth mentioning. If you use Cydia to pirate applications, you cut yourself off from the official support of that developer.

The entire smooth and convenient user experience that Apple devices are known for loses a significant amount of shine if you break out of those confines. You need to do a lot more manual work to keep your system and apps up to date and may have to wait weeks or months to get updates that need to be jailbroken first.

As you might expect, Apple has never been pleased about either jailbreaking or alternative stores such as Cydia. If you use the Cydia app store for piracy, you’re definitely on the wrong side of both the company and the developers of the various applications. Don’t expect any support from Apple if you mess up your device by going outside of their approved permissions.

There has always been a persistent arms race between the folks at Apple and the people who make jailbreaking and external app installation possible. With every new iOS update and every new hardware release, Apple tries to plug the holes found in the latest round of hacks.

For obvious reasons, we’re not going to publish a step-by-step jailbreaking guide or instructions on how to use Cydia. Instead, we’ll outline how people use Cydia, how it works in practice, and what’s involved.

If you’re so inclined, there are any number of guides out on the internet. As always, you follow them at your own risk. Here’s the basic process:

The Cydia app store comes with various “sources” which are repositories for apps. If the apps you want aren’t in the standard sources, then you can add them. This is where issues of piracy arise and where Cydia itself can wash its hands. None of the default sources in this alternate app store enable piracy. That’s something users themselves bring into the picture on an individual level.

Sources are found by searching for them on Google. They come in the form of a URL (web address) which you copy into the listed courses of Cydia.

We’d never presume to tell you what decisions to make, especially if they are informed decisions. Plenty of people jailbreak their iOS devices, use the Cydia app store, and are very happy with the results. Do we recommend that most users do it? Absolutely not.

We also strongly advise against going down this route with your only, mission-critical device. It’s better to experiment with jailbreaking and Cydia on a secondary device that you can afford to brick. Like an old iPad or iPod Touch.

Jailbreaking lets you do all sorts of things with your iOS device, such as run other operating systems on it or change aspects of the device interface that Apple won’t let us touch. Jailbreaking has legitimate applications in the same way that game console modification to allow homebrew software is an important part of how people learn to code or work with computer systems. However, if your only reason to jailbreak or use an app like Cydia is piracy, we can’t say that this is a good reason at all.

In the end, you have to make your own decisions. Know the risks and benefits, weigh them up and decide if this is something you want to do. You should also be aware that there are several Cydia alternatives to choose from.