Alternative solutions for in-house iPhone enterprise app distribution

Question

A client has asked us to develop a proprietary in-house app for managing their back-end systems. However, we are a small development company and I\'m certain that their comp

Answer 1

About the only real choices you have are...

• Up to 100 devices as ad-hoc distribution.
• Enterprize distribution (requires > 500 employees)
• Everyone has to march their device down to some IT-central and get built as a "developer" device. (yikes!)
• Jail-broken.

Jail-broken may sound scary, but it's actually pretty advanced, now-a-days, and can be managed quite easily. Still, it voids your warrantee (unless you're willing to restore-to-factory and be not-honest about it ;)

Still, technically, it's an available option and can be made to work, if you're willing to plan it out.

Let us know what you decide, and the pros & cons of that method.