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This is one of the more compelling arguments I've seen for allowing sideloading apart from the obvious philosophical point about users having ultimate control o

by Zak 10y ago

This is one of the more compelling arguments I've seen for allowing sideloading apart from the obvious philosophical point about users having ultimate control over devices they own.

radicaldreamer 10y ago
Apple has de-facto allowed sideloading via enterprise accounts since Crashlytics Beta launched (never heard of a company being capped for having too many users downloading their beta app)
- gilgoomesh 10y ago
  You don't even need an enterprise account for open source apps. Assuming you build it yourself, sideloading of open source apps is free (no developer account required) for anyone running iOS 9 and Xcode 7 or later.
  - gergles 10y ago
    As long as you don't mind reloading the app every week...
    - ascagnel_ 10y ago
      Apps you compile, sign, and install yourself don't expire.
      - gergles 10y ago
        As far as I know this is only with a paid developer certificate; if you are using the free one with Xcode, they require you to reinstall them every 7 days.
ascagnel_ 10y ago
Not really -- the app is just a way to view content that's loaded from a remote server, and the remote server has also been blocked.
- Zak 10y ago
  They had evidently worked out a bypass for that in the app that the government had been unable to block at that point.