What about that, can apple control apps written for one's own use? For limited in-house distribution and deployment? What about free apps? What about for-profit sales but with no need for the app store?
-----Original Message----- From: René Micout <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:27 AM To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]> Subject: Re: How exactly does runrev for ipad/iphone work? Peter, Yes, I understand for all developpers who want to distribute inside the AppStore. It is not my case... I said that few weeks ago. I create tools for me, and I want create tools on iPad witch is, I think, a fabulous thing... I understand also that RunRev don't invest only for people like me, we are not numerous enough... This is my problem... or not... Bon souvenir de Paris René Le 7 mai 2010 à 18:06, Peter Alcibiades a écrit : > > Rene, you are asking the wrong question probably. Suppose you find some way > to bypass the technical legal wording of the restriction. It is not going > to help. You are dealing with a policy which is backed up by the power of > Apple to reject any app, or any developer, for any, or for no, reason. > > So, find a way around it legally, use it, then get caught due to some coding > change in the tools that you should be using, in their view, which leaves a > signature, which your app now does not have, and you get banned. So your > investment is up in smoke. > > It is not going to work. As long as Apple has the mechanism of the App > store, and control over the tools that it wants used, it can lay traps. And > remember, Apple does not care how many false positives it generates. It > just tells you to go away, and you're out. > > The smart thing to do is respect their policy. As Richard says, that is > unfortunately going to mean the policy that is in effect at this particular > hour and day. If it changes tomorrow, well, get ready to respect that one > too. > > This is what causes, and is maybe designed to cause, the pinch for small > businesses. Either you are in the camp, and you follow the rules, and you > become sort of part of an Apple extended family, and you put in all the > effort it takes to keep up, or you are out. > > I know organic farmers in the UK who refuse to supply supermarkets. Yes, > they can sell a lot of stuff to them. But they don't want to be owned by > one. So they take lower margins and greater uncertainty and sell through a > variety of channels. In the end, they feel, its safer and more sustainable > than having the markets always make you offers you cannot refuse. > > Jerry may be right, joining Apple may be the profitable choice. I don't > know. But what's clear is, if you are going to be in, you have to play by > the rules. There is no way around this one, as long as the App Store is the > bottleneck. > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/How-exactly-does-runrev-for-ipad-iphone-work-tp2133661p2134443.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
