Cydia

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Cydia is a graphical user interface of APT for iOS. It enables a user to find and install software unauthorized by Apple on jailbroken iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices. It also refers to the digital distribution platform for software on iOS accessed through Cydia software.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Cydia”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Jay Freeman (saurik) is the author of Cydia, GPL, via Wikimedia Commons.