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Re:Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7 by josteink on Thursday November 12, 2015 @04:07AM (#10552070)
> I'm surprised we haven't seen this emergent behavior for iOS yet. As more and more people have Xcode and a dev license, we could have a sufficiently large amount of people to skip the app store for apps that will never be allowed.

If this ever happened and got popular, you can be certain that Apple would shoot it down in an upcoming iOS release.

Because that's how Apple works: No freedom permitted on "their" devices.

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Re:Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7 by Zr40 on Thursday November 12, 2015 @04:44AM (#10552164)
Apple added the ability to compile and deploy apps without a developer license in iOS 9 and Xcode 7.

In fact, Apple even advertises this ability as the most prominent new feature of Xcode 7.[1]

If your response were true, Apple would never have added this ability in the first place.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

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Re:Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7 by josteink on Friday November 13, 2015 @04:34AM (#10558842)
Say again? It's already blocked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10556375

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Re:Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7 by Zr40 on Monday November 16, 2015 @12:48PM (#10575818)
No, the ability is not blocked. The app is no longer distributed by the developer in response to a request by Apple.
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Re:Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7 by spacemanmatt on Thursday November 12, 2015 @06:35AM (#10552547)
Version 7 and we're just now getting the ability to sideload without a developer license? I think that actually demonstrates the PP's point. This isn't a new liberty, this is a tool to help Apple to drive adoption of their new language.
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Re:Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7 by Zr40 on Thursday November 12, 2015 @07:21AM (#10552676)
Their point was that the ability is going to be removed if it gets used at all. That just doesn't make any sense given the fact I outlined in my response.
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Re:Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7 by celticninja on Friday November 13, 2015 @04:54AM (#10558913)
making sense or not, it has happened,
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Re:Sideloading f.lux on iOS with Xcode 7 by Zr40 on Monday November 16, 2015 @12:46PM (#10575809)
No, it has not. The ability is still there. Apple only asked the developer to stop distributing the app, which they did.
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