Saurik: Over 18M Devices Running iOS 6 Visited Cydia During Evasi0n’s 6 Week Run

It has been a long time since we’ve heard any news from Saurik, today he appears to the public giving us some great news. According to Jay Freeman, aka Saurik, Cydia saw more than 18 million unique iPhones, iPads and iPod touches, running iOS 6 (or later), visit during the jailbreak’s 6-week long run…

Forbes Andy Greenberg, speaking with Freeman, reports:

“In the six weeks since evasi0n was released, however, close to 18 million devices have already been jailbroken, according to data from Jay Freeman, the administrator of the Cydia app store for jailbroken devices. He says he’s counted 18.2 million unique devices running iOS 6 visiting Cydia, including 13.8 million iPhones, 3.4 million iPads, and 1.1 million iPod Touches.”

Just after Evasi0n jailbreak came and unlimited number of users are jailbreaking their devices daily using Evasi0n untethered jailbreak, even they could jailbreak their devices using the popular Redsn0w jailbreak tool or Sn0wbreeze.

But even if it only accounted for 17 million, that’d still be impressive. As Greenberg points out, Comex’s popular JailbreakMe 3 hack was only used around 2 million times during its life cycle—remember, though, it only lasted 9 days.