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iOS Apps Can Now Be Transferred From One Developer to Another

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Free idea: App Roulette. Everybody puts in one app of roughly equal monthly income. Spin the wheel, everybody gets something new and fun to work on. Great for getting rid of those old apps that make too much money to get rid of, but aren't something you want to actively develop.

Just pm me stock when your MVP gets funded.

Alternative name: Legacy code roulette :-). Not working with enough legacy code in your day job? Is your code lacking all those hacks that codebases accumulate only after having changed hands between tens of developers? Is your codebase documented too well? Use Legacy code roulette!

Haha

Been waiting a long time for this. This definitely heats up the App acquisition marketplace. There are a lot of companies in this space already but one that's funded by Mark Cuban: https://www.apptopia.com/

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/apptopia

The whole of iTunes Connect could use a refresh. Sales reports from the previous day are often delayed by several hours, and there isn't any good way to hook optimization tools into your app's App Store page.

This is awesome. One of the primary reasons many people had to setup an LLC or something similar to ship a paid app was because you couldn't easily transfer later for tax purposes. Glad to see they removed this!

After 200+ Apptopia developers email'ed Apple, and after 15+ months of hustle its finally possible!

Hah, I just mused on Twitter about how it would effect Apptopia! Great to hear.

Woah, finally! Congrats to guys from Apptopia and to developers who are about to sell apps there!

God this will make contracting & hackathons so much easier. I can build the App on my account and send it off to theirs after it's the code is stable, approved, and launched. No more futzing around in other people's accounts. Fantastic.

This is huge for smaller developers that are interested in selling their apps. Send me a note if you are interested in selling. Email in my profile.

This is huge. I sold an app to another company several years ago (very small deal) but had to continue distributing it for them because Apple had no way to transfer ownership.

Finally. This was absolutely necessary, and has been a shocking barrier to App Store developers until now.

You mean developers are allowed to share code ?

No, it means developers can transfer the _app_. That means all the stats, rankings, reviews, and users.

You could always sell someone the rights and code for your app, but there was no way to move it to a different account so they retained ownership. You had to either re-submit the app, or give them your developer account. Both came with massive downsides.

Finally!

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