iPhone AppStore digital application signing explained
You’ve probably wondered how Apple is going to keep control over applications in AppStore?
According to Daniel Eran Dilger’s “Roughly Drafted” Apple will use a combination of digital application signatures and the FairPlay DRM that they licensed not too long ago. This will allow Apple not only to prevent software piracy between iPhone users but also the ability to disable the app in case it was found malicious. Or even worse, remove the license from developer to publish again.
“Apple has the same kind of control over developers that the DMV holds over drivers,” Dilger says. “If drivers faced no threat of losing their license, there would be no way of holding them accountable to drive according to the law.”
While $99 might seem like a big price, it is nothing compared to what Rim Charges. While you have to pay Apple onetime fee of $99, RIM charges $100 per computer used to develop applications. So if a firm has over 100 computers that is quite a price to pay.
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