In the WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs talked about the App Store and iPhone 2.0. He talked about the different ways to distribute apps other than just downloading them off the App Store. One of the ways really shocked me:
Apple’s intentions of this is to allow enterprises to distribute apps that only they can use, but this method of distributing apps could possible be an end to jailbreaking. Jailbreaking’s purpose would be to allow us to run apps on our iPhone that Apple doesn’t allow to be in the App Store.
Well, these apps that the enterprises make will not be in the App Store, they will be online. They are available online to download and then sync up with iTunes. Do you see where I am going with this? This system is made for enterprises, but how does Apple control that? What stops random developers from calling themselves an enterprise? What will stop people from making apps, distributing them online, authorizing all the iPhones in the world and having them able to sync up with iTunes? Apple will have no clue which apps you download from the App Store and which ones you downloaded from online. This is why, essentially, you should be able to download any app from online and sync it up with your iPhone. There would be no need to jailbreak…
This is based off of what Jobs said. Maybe there will be a lot more restrictions on this system of distributing apps and Apple will only allow special, and real enterprises to do this. The reason I am raising this question is because I have no idea how they would actually do that. How can they make it so only a certain people can distribute apps like using that system. Eventually people will figure out how to write them so they can be synced with iTunes. What stops people from using this system to distribute apps that aren’t allowed in the App Store?
Is this possible? Does anyone know anything more about this than I do?
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June 10th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Well, don’t companies need to be accepted as Enterprises by Apple in the first place, so I think they’ll have the list of real companies that make apps. But here’s to hoping they don’t!!
June 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Colin,
I thought about this, but Apple only accepted enterprises to for the exchange services. I don’t know how they would do this for the apps and this is why I came up with this possibility
June 12th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I think they can only authorize up to 1000 iPhones at a time.
July 7th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
GREAT ARTICLE JACOBS .BUT,I THINK STEVE JOBS WILL THINK OF SOMEWAY TO MAKE MONEY OFF THIS.