Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps...
by seba_dos1 on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:40PM
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It used to not be possible at all, and now you still have to repeat it regularly if you want to keep using the sideloaded application, which makes it close to useless for anything else than development. Of course, doing it on anything else than macOS is a huge PITA too.
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Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps...
by vbezhenar on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:39AM
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It was always possible. Buy a developer certificate. $100/year, when whole iPhone is like $1500 is not that expensive. Consider it a premium service.
Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps...
by seba_dos1 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:24AM
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The whole iPhone I got was $100 itself, second hand, some older version that was still useful for development. Its purpose was to let me port my game engine to iOS. I managed to port a single app, run it on the phone and then decided to forget about iOS at all. The necessary effort to deal with all that stuff is crazy and it's better to spend all that time elsewhere.
Today that phone stays in the drawer and I can't run that app on it anymore; I'd probably have to spend hours figuring things out again just to redeploy it so I can launch it on my phone.
Meanwhile, on my actual phone, I can just scp a deb package and install it with dpkg, and it works until I uninstall it myself.