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Seriously? That's awesome, I'm really glad Apple's taken that step in the right direction. Question though, has it had a large impact on popularity of pirated

• mikeash 10y ago
  It should be noted that it's quite limited. You can only install a few of these apps on a given device, and they expire quickly. It's not really practical for sideloading in the general case.
  • saurik 10y ago
    In practice, what people do is they pay something like $5 a year to get added to a shared pool of developer accounts. In China they also had a really slick scam going for a long time involving pools of otherwise-unused enterprise certificates (though I haven't tracked this one recently, and so maybe they got hit even harder than the resigning services have been). I will also point out that for many of the use cases of piracy, which involves games and other content where the user rapidly get "bored" and moves on to other content, a limit of three at a time for only seven days doesn't matter: people can pirate a few games and play them for a weekend, and then move on to pirate other games. (If you are curious, I'm of course excited by these things and like explaining them as it further weakens the argument some people try to make that jailbreaking leads to mass piracy, something even the US Copyright Office doesn't believe; but this line of analysis makes the whole situation more obvious ;P;)