SAURIK’S THOUGHTS ABOUT “HOW TO INSTALL CYDIA ON IOS 6 BETA 1″:

“From the perspective of many of the community developers, this is very disappointing, and it is exceptionally so that WyndWarrior (in particular) did this without getting on IRC and asking any questions before deciding to post this build publicly.

In essence, when Cydia runs on a build of iOS, it causes massive end user adoption of that firmware version. Developers, on the other hand, do not need, nor do they often even care about, Cydia on their system: they use apt.

What this means for beta builds of the firmware is that there is then rampant piracy of Apple’s firmware and flagrant violation of Apple’s developer account terms of service. This is obviously something we have the goal to minimize.

Meanwhile, developers in Cydia then begin to receive large numbers of complaints about things available in Cydia that don’t work yet; something that is exceptionally silly, as the firmware is still itself a moving and buggy target.

In fact, in the case of iOS 5.0 ignoring b1 was actually the most correct thing for developers: by b3, Apple had fixed many of the bugs that were happening-yes, even in our jailbreak-specific projects-by the later betas.

Thereby, all of the major developers, the repositories, and many of the people working on jailbreaks themselves (certainly most of those that were around at the time)… we all were incredibly happy when Cydia didn’t work on iOS 6b1.

The argument is that, without a working version of Cydia, this beta firmware jailbreak can be released publicly, but will only get adoption by developers, not end users; we, in essence, do not have to worry about these aforementioned problems.

So, despite a number of hesitations and arguments, even those most strongly against releasing jailbreaks for beta versions of iOS reluctantly withdrew their complaints about a release of common jailbreaks, such as redsn0w, for iOS 6b1.

After all, with a more public jailbreak process, it does become easier for many developers to update their software throughout the betas. The last component missing, Cydia, could then be released only with a jailbreak for “the real firmware”.

Sadly, however, the result seems to be that we cannot actually trust the extended developer community. It took only two or three days for someone not realizing the delicate balance to opt for some publicity and release a replacement Cydia build. *sigh*

This means that many of us, certainly me, will now be registering a strong “no” when it comes to a public release of any future jailbreak for beta releases of iOS (and “absolutely not” for b1), whether or not Cydia operates.”