Wrong. See here. https://developer.apple.com/business/custom-apps/
Their walled garden, bureaucratic and complex interconnected and Apple dependent model is better than nothing, thanks.
As Mark pointed out, there’s another model too besides the Enterprise. The “Custom Business”, but both are related, with your app passing by the Apple bureaucratic, complex, paid, inspected and approved app deployment tracking system as you pointed out. But at least it is manageable if you find a market in such ecosystem.
A market in such ecosystem would be most large organisations who will not allow the free for all that is Android anywhere near their networks.
Anyway it’s pretty clear that you are anti iOS so I’ll leave this discussion now.
I don’t know, maybe, but such claim could only be possibly valid in US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Not true. I love the OS. I just don’t like the ecosystem.
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The point with Apples policy is that they do not allow third party software except within a small business program up to 100 users and for payed channels. There is no other way, the user cannot decide to install, Apple decides this. As a long time Linux developer I love being in an open world so iOS for me is a pain.
But there would be a nice way to bring up iOS development to all computers witch would realize open Plattform development. I don’t work with Mac OS and also not under Linux. So developing with a build server would be a nice solution cause xojo could provide on this way iOS development under Linux. B4i shows the way.
Could an admin simply lock this thread ? It has derailed beyond redeem, and is no longer on topic.
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where the bell is you can also mute it.
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Since this topic has gone so far off the rails that it’s really not salvageable per the original intent, and splitting the discussion would be an overly onerous task, I’m going to lock it and recommend that those who wish to discuss iOS versus Android create a new topic in Off-Topic and @Mike_D create a new topic for the original discussion if they wish to do so.
Both can link to specific posts in this topic if they wish to refer back. I’d like to remind everyone that the forum guidelines do request that participants not derail discussions:
To keep things productive, please avoid derailing a discussion altogether.
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