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> Why doesn’t Apple have different certificate schemes for in-house versus App Store (if they don’t already)? Enterprise distribution allows you to deploy appl
by dwaite 2y ago
> Why doesn’t Apple have different certificate schemes for in-house versus App Store (if they don’t already)?
Enterprise distribution allows you to deploy applications to corporate managed devices with no App Store review whatsoever. The restrictions are mostly in the business agreement in who you can provide enterprise distribution to (e.g. employees and contractors) and on what your apps can do. The justification is that the enterprise has a relationship with the employee/contractor, is ultimately on the hook for abuses/harms they do via MDM on employee devices.
This is the situation that led to both Facebook and Google having their enterprise accounts banned temporarily a few years ago, as they were each using them as part of a market analysis program - they offered to install VPN software onto consumer devices that monitored web and third-party app usage. Such monitoring is not allowed even for employees per the enterprise developer account agreement.