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Yes, but you have to pay apple, and be approved by them before you receive a developer key. Apple still plays the gatekeeper.

• cstejerean 18y ago
  Before the SDK was released you had no way to get any apps onto your phone, or anyone else's. I see the current situation as a step forward and I believe Apple will looses restrictions for ad-hoc distribution of applications, they just need to figure things out (the same way they needed a while to figure out building a good SDK and distribution platform).
  • silencio 18y ago
    Sure there was, and there still is. It's called jailbreaking, but Apple doesn't like it (will refuse to support your iPhone should there be problems, so you'll have to revert). There were multiple apps one can still use to get jailbroken apps on one's iPhone. It also happens to be the only way one can pirate existing app store iPhone applications, sooo...
  • anewaccountname 18y ago
    >"[...] same way they needed a while to figure out building a good sdk distribution platform" More likely the reason for the delay in doing the above was because they needed to figure out building a good lock-down and kill-switch mechanism.