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Would this be the time to explore selling iOS apps outside of the app store? Offer users a binary download (like when you buy the desktop app outside of the st
by captainmuon 10y ago
Would this be the time to explore selling iOS apps outside of the app store?
Offer users a binary download (like when you buy the desktop app outside of the store). Then have a little tool that you run on your Mac, connect the iOS device, enter your developer credentials (since this is a developer's tool the user likely has them, otherwise registration is quick and free)... and the tool sideloads the app to the iOS device.
- sparky_ 10y agoNormally I would think this is a ridiculous approach, but given the purpose of the app is literally developer docs, it might just work.
- chid 10y agoDidn't F.lux try to do this and get promptly shut down by Apple for violating the Developer Agreement? https://justgetflux.com/sideload/ https://justgetflux.com/sideload/
- saurik 10y agoI build what I believe is currently the most popular (mostly for being free and solid: Cydia Impactor) simple tool for this, and will point out that apps sideboards in this fashion are extremely limited as you don't have access to basic iOS functionality that requires special profiles, such as push notifications, and you can only have up to three such apps installed on an iOS 10 device at a time, each of which will have a certificate that expires after only 7 days. (Apple has been slowly clamping down on these limits; it used to be such apps expired after 30 days, then they rate limited free app identifiers to 10 per week, then they made the apps expire after 7 days, and, most recently, you are limited to 3 total installed apps.)