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> Require you to run an app on a Mac laptop and write some code to make it work. Make it so that there are so many steps that only the most dedicated are interested. But just make it possible.

Can't you do exactly that with xcode?

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> Can't you do exactly that with xcode?

Only if the source is available. Or the creator is under their 100 user limit.

There is no way for someone to make an iPhone app and put it up online and let anyone who wants to download it and install it.

Ok - but that’s not what you said. We’ve agreed that would lead to the problems already outlined.

The seven day certificate expiration duration also makes this largely impractical.

The parent said: “Make it so that there are so many steps that only the most dedicated are interested. But just make it possible.“

I consider ‘impractical’ (not practicable) to not rise to ‘possible’.

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