Thanks Casey for this, that's great news, both for Squeak progress and for
general Mac work (I may yet be able to get some work done on my new Apple
devices :))

Thanks,

Russ

On 11 September 2015 at 06:59, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When I heard that Apple was competing with Surface Pro I went looking for
> the only feature of the Surface Pro that I wanted in Apple's new tablet:
> side loading.
>
> It looks like Apple has dropped the $99 a year for not even necessarily
> selling anything on the App Store requirement. It's not exactly
> side-loading, because end users would still have to build the VM from C
> sources in Xcode before installing it, but it's something.
>
> The upshot is, since we can't ship via app-store, we can do a source
> distribution and get around the stupid App Store rules that hate us so.
> Thus, we don't have to rely on weird flaky crap like jailbreaks or have a
> guy paying for a dev account out of the goodness of his heart to distribute
> test keys for the system to those brave enough to run it without a proper
> touch interface.
>
> I may buy another iPad yet.
>
> Guessing most people familiar with the sitch are probably up to date, but
> for anyone who missed this detail, Casey to the rescue.
>
>
> http://9to5mac.com/2015/06/10/xcode-7-allows-anyone-to-download-build-and-sideload-ios-apps-for-free/
>
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