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In practical terms, what does being unlisted on the app store really get you? If you were worried about someone accidentally stumbling across your internal app
by mortenjorck 5y ago
In practical terms, what does being unlisted on the app store really get you?
If you were worried about someone accidentally stumbling across your internal app… ask a hobbyist iOS game developer how many people stumble across the app they’re actively trying to promote.
If the possibility of people outside your organization having access to an app at all is not acceptable, this doesn’t solve that as there is no mechanism to stop the link from being shared outside.
Everything else is the same; same submission and review process, same distribution channel. As best I can tell, all this does is change the visibility of your app from 0.01 to 0.005.
- ezfe 5y agoEasy example: You're a big company (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.) and you want to publish an app without showing it on your developer page in the app store or "related apps" on a big app. Netflix doesn't want a cafeteria ordering app showing up next to the main Netflix app, but it doesn't actually need to be securely distributed to only Netflix employees since it still requires login.
- ayewo 5y agoMore concrete examples of internal iOS apps at big companies like Facebook and Google are mentioned in this NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/technology/apple-blocks-facebook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/technology/apple-blocks-f... This was when Facebook had it internal iOS apps disabled due to Apple’s discovery of the true nature of Onavo as a privacy eroding app distributed to consumers by Facebook.