> 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.
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.
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.
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.