JailbreakCon 2012 exposed a great deal of content relating to every aspect of the jailbreaking scene. Of the many speakers, Saurik, the developer and maintainer of Cydia, released some interesting statistic and number around his alternative marketplace. Saurik estimates that $8 million dollars were distributed to developers and themers that use the Cydia Store over the last year.
These numbers are shocking considering the high piracy rate in some applications that can be well over 90%. That being said the developer of iFile told us that over its lifetime his app accumulated over 20 million downloads with many paid upgrades. If anything this is an indication that jailbreaking is far from dead.
Jay Freeman also estimated that around 6-12% of all iOS devices are jailbroken, the fluctuation mainly impacted by software updates.
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