I am a commercial software developer. I want to build a closed source app, distribute the.ipa from my server after a customer pays me, and then the customer installs it on an iPhone. No XCode. No magical web sites. Just my distribution mechanism (email or HTTPS download). It would be acceptable to require a desktop computer as an intermediary, but it must be my software that runs on the desktop, not some magical program from who knows what.
Is this possible? (I don't think so, but I'd like to be proven wrong.)
And don't tell me to just use the AppStore. My application does not meet Apple requirements (it provides for in-app software upgrades).
Yep. I've been an Apple fan for 20 years, but I finally decided to take a stand against Apple's policy of no side loading of commercially purchased software. I traded my last iPhone for a Google Pixel. iOS *is* a superior operating system, but I can live with Android. If Apple ever tries the same thing with macOS, I'll be gone for good.
I have no mod points to try to fix the ridiculous classification of this post as Troll. I'm reminded of Orwell's warning - "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
No, his "compound" was not on Ambergris Caye. He initially lived there, but he then built his "compound" on the mainland. Google the lengthy Wired Magazine article about him where you will find this sentence "He began spending more time in Orange Walk, a town of about 13,000 people that was 5 miles from his compound." and then use Google Maps to locate Orange Walk on the mainland.
McAfee's "compound" was near Orange Walk Town, on the mainland, which is nowhere near Ambergris Caye. One wonders how many other "facts" in this story are completely false.
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I am a commercial software developer. I want to build a closed source app, distribute the .ipa from my server after a customer pays me, and then the customer installs it on an iPhone. No XCode. No magical web sites. Just my distribution mechanism (email or HTTPS download). It would be acceptable to require a desktop computer as an intermediary, but it must be my software that runs on the desktop, not some magical program from who knows what.
Is this possible? (I don't think so, but I'd like to be proven wrong.)
And don't tell me to just use the AppStore. My application does not meet Apple requirements (it provides for in-app software upgrades).
Bzzt. You can only side load open source apps. My post was about "commercially purchased software".
Yep. I've been an Apple fan for 20 years, but I finally decided to take a stand against Apple's policy of no side loading of commercially purchased software. I traded my last iPhone for a Google Pixel. iOS *is* a superior operating system, but I can live with Android. If Apple ever tries the same thing with macOS, I'll be gone for good.
I have no mod points to try to fix the ridiculous classification of this post as Troll. I'm reminded of Orwell's warning - "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution is clear that treaties require 2/3 of Senators voting in the affirmative to enact a treaty.
No, his "compound" was not on Ambergris Caye. He initially lived there, but he then built his "compound" on the mainland. Google the lengthy Wired Magazine article about him where you will find this sentence "He began spending more time in Orange Walk, a town of about 13,000 people that was 5 miles from his compound." and then use Google Maps to locate Orange Walk on the mainland.
McAfee's "compound" was near Orange Walk Town, on the mainland, which is nowhere near Ambergris Caye. One wonders how many other "facts" in this story are completely false.