revMobile and SDK

[Ian Wood]

On 30 May 2010, at 07:37, Mark Smith wrote:

> I have a question for the group. I've been reading about the recent  
> changes to the Apple SDK for the last couple of hours (here and on  
> Appleinsider) and one thing I don't understand is how Apple can  
> actually do this? Is it only for products that are intended to be  
> marketed through the app store? If you choose to market your product  
> through some other means do they still have any say over how you  
> develop your application? Seems nuts or illegal to me.

The App Store is the only public distribution channel for Apple's  
mobile devices, outside the enterprise market there's no way to  
'sideload' apps other than HTML5 webapps.

Maybe nuts, but there doesn't appear to be anything illegal about it.

Ian