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If you had a pneumothorax I'm like...50 percent sure I could slap on a chest seal
Head wound? I'd just as soon not pick up the oscillating tool
Do you have a doctor without a terrible drug addiction I can talk to
Oh I'm a square
Caffeine, but I'm probably less addled than your average Red Bull-crushing ER Doc
We do but they lack empathy and treat every issue as one that can be solved through medication only
Is the medication from a glitterworld
Use case: Wanting to share small custom apps with family and friends, but not wanting to make it public on the App Store.
The Good: They have a custom app program that allows developers to push apps privately. This program fully leverages the App Store backend for deployment/delivery of an App. It provides a way for developers to list their app as "private" or "unlisted" depending on the desired use-case.
The Bad: This program is setup to only cater to educational institutions and businesses (B2B) only.
The Ugly: The management of institutions and businesses is wrapped into the enterprise MDM (mobile-device-management) solution. So even if you did jump through the hoops to setup a business for distributing apps to a small group of family and friends. You'd then have to take on the responsibility that comes with MDM software/packages. Yuck!.
uhh, why do you have all these rows hidden?
One of its configurations is strapped around the waist and the leg like a thigh holster
Separate account. And then a shared account for shared expenses that get a % of everyone's income automatically deposited monthly.
No doubt, but it just seems odd to disable/not make available this capability when all of the pieces are right there. Like, we can push a build, and provide Apple IDs for green-listed/invited users via the TestFlight program. But those builds expire after 90 days because they're intended as rapid break/fix testing prior to pushing to the App Store. Why can't there just be a personal version of that for apps that were pushed to the App Store (so they can go through the review phase, etc)?
It's dumb.
Anyway, it was fun! We landed on LV-426 I MEAN CERAL 4 and there was a weird fungus as well as towering, skyscraper sized ant mounds, so. Good times. Our marine is already infected with the fungus, so I guess we'll see what happens. Good news, we all survived the first session.
Bad news? I'm an android, and I'm trying to like HELL to give the GM reasons to make me a traitor, hahaha!
My D&D game last Thursday went pretty well, too. The players did go into the Labyrinth beneath Knossos, but my maze idea was a little flawed. I super overestimated how long it would take them to go through each phase of the maze, so there have only been two random encounters so far, and they're 2/3rds of the way through. We ran out of time, with was disappointing to me because I really want to get to the end of this Labyrinth. I'm excited to show the players what King Minos' treasure was.
Buuuut we're not playing tonight. And we can't next week because one of the players has a work trip. Then she leaves for Europe for a month. Then it's Christmastime. I'm worried we won't play again for 2 - 3 MONTHS now. This is the part that makes me hate trying to play D&D. Or any RPG, really.
If the app is pushed to the App Store, then it goes through the standard review phase which would screen apps with builds.
Interestingly, the "unlisted" feature of the custom apps (for businesses only) is shared via uri-only that points to the app in the app store.
They have the use case setup, and the review infrastructure.
makes sense, it's not like you can browse to root and see subdirectories anymore for shit like that. Teams/MS do it that way.
Sure, but even standard data collection stuff that likely wouldn't raise any flags could potentially be abused etc. I'd imagine. I admit I'm much less versed than you in the hoops that you'd have to jump through pre-MDM level, but by laymanish take is that it strikes me as an additional layer of vetting for security reasons.
t-t-t-triple post, but side loading is something I do not want. I like how Apple has done the App Store from the security/review standpoint.
But more importantly, I don't want to walk various people through the process to enable sideloading and leave their devices potentially open to attack vector like that.
Apple arcade has a bunch of things. Maybe check that out?
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I think there's always going to be abuse no matter what. My feeling is that for motivated actors the abuse is already happening via the TestFlight program.
It's a 90-day window with no official Apple review and up to 10,000 users. Any sort of crime app with sufficient backing will be able to cycle through builds because there's motivation to do so. Me, just a dude trying to make things for family and some friends, does not have the desire to cycle a build every 90 days (and walk some of my older family members through how to download the TestFlight-enabled build).
I love job fairs like that
I went to one at a nearby airbase for state and local government jobs two years ago and it was like pick between CHP, Corrections, and DMV. Oh and these other places that apparently exist.
It was depressing
No offense but I am glad it’s locked away and required shit like MDM and business registration.
The day apps can be installed on my phone through side loading is the day my iPhone is significantly less secure, and spyware/ransomware and all the bullshit android and windows has to deal with comes to my device.
Have you considered running a forever-beta on TestFlight and letting your family register through that to get access to the app? So long as it’s less than 100 people you can totally do this.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Mothership rules and has an above-average fan adventure writing community.
Zero pain and TestFlight handles auto updates for you.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Definitely not suggesting side-loading. You and I are on the same page there. I want to use the App Store infrastructure. I just want to be able to set my Custom App to "private" without going through MDM or signing up as a business.
My understanding of the TestFlight path (I haven't tried it yet, so I'm possibly missing something) from the documentation is that any one build expires after 90 days, so I can't forever-beta an app. Though it is unclear if this is 90-days after pushing it to the App Store, or 90-days lifetime for the build full stop.
https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/test-a-beta-version/overview-of-testflight
Set up an automated job to build and push a new build monthly into the app ID, and everyone will get the updates to their device. They don’t have to do anything.
You can do this for years.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...