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I wonder what Apple would do if someone created a corporation to distribute apps with the enterprise license and every time they want to distribute the app, the

I wonder what Apple would do if someone created a corporation to distribute apps with the enterprise license and every time they want to distribute the app, the corporation would make the potential user a member of the corporation first. I mean this is all just legal bullshit preventing us from using our own devices the way that we want right? Why not use the same bullshit back against them… I don’t have a dog in the fight between Clearview and Apple or law-enforcement’s use of AI. I’m just irked by this particular restriction on Apple devices. You just can’t really have a mobile presence without addressing Apple and even if they don’t have a technical monopoly, it annoys me that they still have this level of control over the market.

JiNCMG 7y ago
They don't control the market they control their environment and that might affect the market.
lacker 7y ago
Apple can and does change the rules of the App Store at any time. If someone created a corporation with the specific goal of circumventing this rule, I would expect Apple to simply change the wording of the rule to prevent this sort of workaround.
sixstringtheory 7y ago
Apple can yank your enterprise certs if they feel you’re abusing them, too. They did it to Facebook last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035834
chendragon 7y ago
People DO do this. This is how things like iPhone Cake/AppCake work (and all the other "alternate" app stores). They register up a bunch of enterprise certs under some weird innocent sounding names, like "Global English Education Co.Ltd" or something, and use the certs to sign apps.