iOS jailbreak app, Activator shows up in App Store. It's fake though
If you've jailbroken your iPhone, you'll see an iOS customization app, Activator in the Cydia store. However, ...

If you've jailbroken your iPhone, you'll see an iOS customization app, Activator, in the Cydia store. However, there now appears to be an app called Activator promising the same iOS customization and presenting the same screenshots as the Cydia app in the iOS App Store. The difference is that the one available in the Cydia store is free and actually does offer the customization it promises. The iOS App Store version costs $0.99 (about Rs. 57), and functions as a wallpaper-generating application at the most. Clearly, the App Store version is fake. According to iDownloadBlog, the Cydia version of the app is a popular jailbreak tweak developed by Ryan Petrich. The functions that it promises (and the App Store version rips-off) are:
- Using multitouch gestures in iPhone/iPod Touch
- Changing the way a user would access their iPhone/iPod Touch
- Assuming custom buttons or custom gestures for original buttons

Screenshots of the fake Activator in the App Store
What's interesting is that Apple's app approval gang let this application slip through the cracks. The functions that it promises clearly violate Apple's terms and conditions for developers and what's more, the app doesn't deliver on what it promises, which is yet another violation. This is not the first time that a fake jailbreak app has come to the App Store. Last year, Winterboard, a Cydia app by Jay Freeman (saurik), which essentially provided Winter-themed customizations for iOS devices, popped up in the App Store. Of course, since it violated Apple's terms and conditions, it shouldn't have been there to begin with. Is Apple's application approval department getting a little loose and lazy? If you want to use Activator, jailbreak your device and get it 'legitimately' from the Cydia store.
Paddy does not, we repeat, definitely does NOT belong in the category of Mac-head (yeh right!). She does get excited by her iPhone and her iMac and her iPod Nano and her Macbook and Bali's iPad and her future iHouse (patent pending). Ok, so maybe her head is a little bit forbidden fruit shaped. She likes shooting video (iPhone 4 camera zindabad!) and editing montages (Final Cut Pro zindabad!), whether the scene calls for it or no. In her spare time, she's either kicking it on stage with KB the keyboard or kicking butt at Taekwondo.

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