Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)

Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by doctor_eval on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:56PM (#28545495)

Nothing stops you from developing and installing your own apps on your own iPhone with Xcode. AFAIK you don’t even need to pay for a developer license. You only have to pay if you want to distribute the app to others.

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by SilverRed on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:29PM (#28545825)

The apps become invalid after about 7 days after compiling them. So for development its fine but if you are building utilities for yourself to use, it could be an issue.

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by tablespoon on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:22PM (#28546765)

> The apps become invalid after about 7 days after compiling them. So for development its fine but if you are building utilities for yourself to use, it could be an issue.

Exactly, they deliberately crippled the feature to make it too painful to bypass their corporate bureaucracy. It's only useful for the narrow uses that suit Apple. In no way is that ability comparable to side-loading on Android.

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by joe_guy on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:04PM (#28547090)

To be clear, even if you do pay up, then they still expire on each anniversary of you signing up.

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