Developers Are in Open Revolt over Apple's New App Store Rules

Re:Developers Are in Open Revolt over Apple's New App Store ... by kjreact on Monday February 12, 2024 @12:27PM (#39347634)

Can someone more familiar with iOS app development explain why people can’t just use developer mode on their iOS devices to run untrusted code? Can’t you bypass the App Store entirely with this method?

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Re:Developers Are in Open Revolt over Apple's New App Store ... by vdaea on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:48PM (#39350280)

You can only install 3 apps at once, they are somewhat limited in the APIs they can use, and they expire every 7 days (you need to reinstall them using a computer)

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Re:Developers Are in Open Revolt over Apple's New App Store ... by kjreact on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @08:12AM (#39357274)

Thanks for the response; those restrictions do make running homebrew code rather inconvenient. I read that buying a dev account increases the limit to 10 apps and they expire every year. That’s probably sufficient for my use cases, but it’s still not ideal.

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Re:Developers Are in Open Revolt over Apple's New App Store ... by vdaea on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @10:46AM (#39358664)

Costs $100 a year unfortunately.

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