Siri0us Voice Dictation Hack Removed From Cydia Over Licensing Issues

Freedom of doing whatever you want with YOUR phone, one more reason to go Android!! Makes me think about the original Apple Macintosh ad, 1984 video

You do understand that freedom has nothing to do with the topic of discussion?

"Free" maybe.

Siri0usly, buy a new phone.

Knew it wouldn't be long until Apple or Nuance shut them down.

Since when has Cydia cared about licensing issues?

Cydia is not in the business of pirating software, it is in the business of providing non-Apple approved software. It's this kind of thinking that gives jailbreaking a bad name.

They have been at voice recognition for 20 years. Theirs works better than anyone else's that I know. It's a specialized knowledge. I say that Nuance is one of the rather small number of things in software that should be patented, because it's hard to do, and it took a lot of investment, and now they're cashing in. That's the way it should work.

Codecs are the same thing. It was really, really hard to come up with H.264. It's open, but not free. Fine with me.

Apple is obviously paying a big licensing fee. That's good.

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Since when has Cydia cared about licensing issues?

When they were threatened with being sued. Because they used Nuance.

IP is a reality. As if Apple was going to allow a Siri-hack, LOL.

Since when has Cydia cared about licensing issues?

Is this the first time something got pulled from Cydia because of a commercial / legal / licensing issue? It's interesting to see Cydia evolve its own processes and rules to respond to legal challenges.

I don't think you have your facts straight. Cydia has never been doing something illegal. It is legal to jailbreak your iphone and install third party software. It might void your warranty with Apple or violate an EULA, but as far as the law in the United States, it is legal to do so. Cydia does not allow pirated software. Never has, never will. So with the removal of this software is in keeping in line with their policies from the beginning.

The fact that there are software repositories out there that do host pirated software is not Cydia's doing.

This was affirmed on July 26, 2010. See this link http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6513

Note that before that jailbreaking was neither legal or illegal.

Freedom of doing whatever you want with YOUR phone, one more reason to go Android!! Makes me think about the original Apple Macintosh ad, 1984 video

You mean freedom for carriers, not customers... because Verizon will happily sell you an Android phone loaded with craplets you cannot remove, HTC and Motorola will happily sell you their handsets with a skin you cannot remove... So, does the customer truly have the freedom to do "whatever [they] want" with THEIR Android phone??

are you sure that it was Cydia who pulled it and not the guy who posted it.

Also it is not the first time Cydia pulled apps. I know in the past they have pulled pirated apps and malware.

I guess some of the articles suggest it was voluntary on the part of Day. Interesting to know pirated apps get pulled from Cydia, I didn't know that.