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According to statistics I've found here jailbreak-statistics-2013 only 5% of devices are jailbroken. So why do iOS developers care about detecting jailbreaks?
People who jailbreak weren't going to pay anyway, but can generate rather good word of mouth, right?
As an enterprise developer I have a different set of challenges to safeguard with jailbroken devices such as sensitive data or passwords that should not be stored on the device or baked into code.
Regarding your comment about jailbreakers not "paying" for an app that's usually a fringe situation amongst that 5% that even try to take advantage of cracking an app. Most jailbreakers, including myself, do so for added functionality Apple doesn't provide out of the box.
I think nobody develops thinking in JailBroken devices, honestly.
I don't care, and never knew anybody who did.
A practical concern (besides trying to discourage theft) is that there are additional support costs when people with jailbroken devices submit bug reports or ask for help. A jailbroken device can have problems that don't happen with a stock device, and these problems can be very hard to track down when the device configuration is unknown.
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How much does it cost to develop an iphone application?
Hope somebody can help. I have been googling trying to get an indication of how long it took apple to develop the AppStore & the iPhone SDK?
My Co. have had an idea to try and do a similar thing internally for our own apps and massively underestimating the amount of work that will be required.
If anybody has any idea how long Apple spent developing the SDK & AppStore, links to any pages even better, I would be very grateful for the info so that I can use that for discussion about the plans.
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Well apple has hundreds of trained engineers working for them, even still at launch, Steve Jobs said the iPhone took around 6 years to create. Along this time frame they were creating the iPhone SDK which they used to create all the apps built in to the phone. Since then they have been constantly updating the SDK several times a year, expanding a lot. The App Store, my guess is that they used the robust iTunes base they already had for distribution, and then all the rest (legal and technical) things should have taken no time at all.
I'm not sure what your company wants to do but it seems without Apple's resources you'd be better off not.
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i was wondering if i can get a iphone developer certificate for free?
I just want to learn objective-c and iphone development.
// No, the xCode iPhone Simulator don't have an accelerometer etc.
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As far as I know, no. It's not possible to get into the dev program without coughing up the dough :)
The dev kit (with the simulator) is good enough for most uses though, and you can certainly learn to develop on the iphone though that. As you mentioned, you don't get access to certain features, but such is life.
As everyone has already said you can't get a free certificate. If however your at university it might be worth asking around the various departments to see if they have signed up for a university licence, this is how I've got my development certificate.
The free developers kit that provides the simulator will let you learn how to do 90% of iPhone coding without having to use an iPhone. If you're new to iPhone development and don't know for certain you will be releasing apps for it, I think the getting an actual developer's license is a waste of money.
Instead, get the free stuff and use it to learn the ropes and then only get the license if and when you decide you what to learn the last 10% and/or release an app.
By jailbreaking your phone, you will not be able to always update your phone to the latest version, and therefore as a developer will face the problem when you sync your phone to your computer to test your code, that you will not be doing it with the latest version and Apple do not look kindly to people who release software that is older than the latest version available
You should check out Apple's developer website. They have objective-c and iPhone development tutorials there.
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When should I give out my iPhone UDID? A company is developing an application for my company for the iphone wants my UDID. Are there any risks to me as an individual giving this out? Many thanks
You should give out your device ID whenever you want an application that is not in the store (or a version not in the store) to run on your iPhone. The developer needs to add that device ID to a list of devices that can run the test version he builds.
(And it's a distracting process for him, so best answer right away before he gets involved in something else.)
The worst thing that can be said about the device ID is that it absolutely identifies your device. No other iPhone will ever have that device ID.
There are not really any privacy risks in giving out a phone ID, and as noted you need to give it out to be able to run test builds on your phone.
I would say though, that if you want to hire someone to develop an app for you you should certainly trust them enough to give them what they ask for, since you are going to be running an application on your phone from them that has not gone through any approval process (though the sandbox helps a lot there as there's not much harm they can do).
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I’m almost ready to offer an IPhone application on the Apple App. Store and make my millions. ;)
For those of you that have gone before, have you formed a business (LLC or proprietorship) to keep things legal?
In the end, it really depends on your plans for your app development. If you're intending to make this a "real" business you'd absolutely want to incorporate for the legal protection and tax advantages. If this is just a hobby/something you're doing in your spare time then I wouldn't bother.
We've used LegalZoom a couple of times to incorporate; plan to spend <= $2K or so to get it done from soup-to-nuts.
I would say that depends largely on the nature of your application. If your app deals with personal information or in some way could damage other data or information on the phone itself, you might want to make sure you're covered liability wise.
If it's a game or something that won't (shouldn't) affect that type of thing, then you might be just fine going it alone.
I used my name. At the time I signed up, I was hearing horror stories about how long it was taking companies to be approved, while approval for individuals was flying through. Perhaps that's changed.
Don't assume that incorporating will protect you from liability. See here
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I am going to develop on iPhone platform. Can some one make an explanation about how to do this? Here is some of my question?
If I want to publish my iPhone software (totally free, and will be free forever), do I have to register apple developer with $99?
If I don't pay for apple, where else can I get detail development information (such as API documentation, library references, etc)?
What are the steps to develop and publish my software by the official way if I want to spend as little money as I can?
If you want to publish in the app store, you have to pay the $99.
There are tons of tutorials, and several good books available.
See #1. You've got to pay the $99 to publish the official way (through the app store.)
All that said, there is the concept of ad-hoc deployment which lets you share a limited number of apps with other people. The limit is 100 phones, and the users will have to go through a much more complicated process to get the app installed. The real purpose for ad-hoc distribution is getting your app to people who can test it before you send it to the app store.
In my opinion, after you've bought the iPhone and the Mac you have to have to run XCode, $99 is a pretty small price to pay. You're probably paying that much every month to keep the phone.