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Earlier this year at the Worldwide Developers Conference Apple unveiled iOS 7, its greatest iOS update yet. The company completely changed the user interface of iOS and also bundled in dozens of new features. After a lengthy beta period, in which the firmware was only seeded to registered developers, Apple finally released iOS 7 to the public in September. Since then iOS 7′s dominance over its predecessors has increased by the day. Last figures, as of December 29th, from Apple reveal that 78 percent of all of its iOS devices around the world are now powered by iOS 7.

Its predecessor, iOS 6, now accounts for 18 percent whereas the versions before that collectively make up four percent. iOS 7′s growth has increased significantly over the past few months. Back in October distribution stats showed that iOS 7 was installed on 64 percent of all devices. In early December the number had jumped to 74 percent. Surely the number would have been even higher if iOS 7 supported a number of legacy iOS devices that were very popular back in the day, including iPhone 3GS, the original iPad and all iPod touch models prior to the fifth generation iPod touch. With the recent release of an iOS 7 untethered jailbreak, its likely that those who had willingly held on to iOS 6.x might make the jump now that they can unshackle their devices on the latest firmware version as well.

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Earlier we reported that the folks at Evad3rs had released the untethered iOS 7 jailbreak but it seems that along with the jailbreak, they include an app store called Taig which is from China, but as it turns out Taig is a third party store in which there are many cracked apps, essentially meaning that they are pirated apps. While it is commonly understood that when one jailbreaks their device, some of them do so because they wish to download pirated apps as opposed to paying for it via the iTunes App Store. Others have more legitimate reasons, such as wanting to tweak their device.

In any case it would seem that the inclusion of Taig has been met with a lot of negativity, to the point where the team had to release a statement on the matter. “Taig has never asked us to disclose our exploits to them, let alone sell them. We were simply asked to bundle their third-party app store in China in a similar way we bundle and distribute Cydia around the world as an additional App Store, and in a similar way to how previous jailbreaks like blackra1n have bundled non-Cydia stores.” Taig has agreed to work on removing pirated apps in their store, with Evad3rs claiming that they will keep an eye on the situation, and will remove Taig if the matter cannot be resolved.

Evasi0n iOS 7 Jailbreak Faces Controversy Over Pirated Apps Store original content from Ubergizmo.

Ever since iOS 7 was publicly released, there has been a lot of speculation about the possibility of a jailbreak. It took developers quite a while to work things out and today the first ever iOS 7 untethered jailbreak has been released for all supported devices. There was no tethered jailbreak available for iOS 7, this is the first jailbreak solution released for Apple’s latest OS update and it supports all incremental updates through iOS 7.0.4. All new devices are covered as well, which means that jailbreak hopefuls can now have their way with the iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPad Air and the iPad mini with Retina Display too.

The @evad3rs dev team is responsible for this iOS 7 untethered jailbreak, which has taken over three months to arrive. A couple of weeks back the team had said that work was going smoothly on the jailbreak, that was the last update on its status. The procedure itself is quite simple. Just download the required program from evasion7 website for either Windows and Mac, connect your device to the computer and simply follow the onscreen instructions. The entire procedure shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. iTunes must be installed on the computer and be sure to make a backup of your data before proceeding.

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