Installer...

[ViViDboarder]

So all this hype about Installer blowing Cydia away... how about it. I realize it's in beta, but I think that Cydia is MILES ahead of Installer. I mean, installer has bigger icons... that's about it. And it resprings every time you close. Is there anything that good about it that Cydia doesn't do? Or is it just preference?

 

[almostaskater62]

i agree. i think cydia completely kills this installer. in usage, stability, user-friendlyness, everything.

 

[stiphone]

i agree

 

[ivtecDOu]

never used installer but i like cydia no issues with it so far

 

[mkrishnan]

Installer's still in beta, and although Cydia comes from much more mature roots (APT), they're both still very much in development. Just a month or two ago, under 1.1.x, Cydia was generally a disaster and Installer was pretty flawless. Cydia beat Installer out of the gate with 2.0, but who knows? Give them both time. We're not at a stable jailbreak installation mechanism just yet.

(FWIW, I installed Installer and not Cydia purely because there were limited reports in 2.0.1 of major iPhone slowdowns if Cydia was installed and the iPhone was restored from backup, but I haven't really installed jailbreaked apps in this round, and there isn't too much in Installer repositories right now).

 

[MultiFinder17]

I <3 Cydia, but that's just me

 

[rjohnstone]

Installer is too slow. I realize it's still beta, but they have a long way to go before they get to the stability and ease of use that I get from Cydia.
Just my opinion.

 

[rainmanbk]

Everything about the new Installer.app is so wrong. The ridiculously huge icons, the horrible layout. The bad organization of installed things in a category under packages? C'mon. The old installer was great, and I agree it was better than Cydia per-2.0. But now that Cydia has established itself and proven itself as an awesome alternative, it'd take a miracle to make me use installer again. Cydia is just way better.

 

[ViViDboarder]

I couldn't restore from backup... I had to just redo everything. Slightly... well more than slightly... anoying.