There's a way to avoid AppleStore?

i need to develop an iPhone application that is a Client of serverside application. This application is not for customer but for sell agents. I know that if i try to send to Apple to put on Apple Store they reject it because the application have no sense for Apple Store. The company is small so i can't use the Enterprise program. The only way i can use now is to use Ad Hoc mode but in this case if i made an update you need iTunes and i mus开发者_如何学Got find a way to avoid this.

Thanks for the help.

I'm not sure your application would be rejected by the Store. For my employer, I developed a client side application that uses an appliance (server side) that my employer sells.

We provided a public appliance (with a public IP) to Apple in order to enable them to test our client application by entering the public IP of the server into the settings of the application.

They tested it, approved it, and our application is now "ready for sale" even if such application is useless for most of the appstore clients who don't own one of our appliance server.

The only option you have is ad hoc distribution, as you mentioned, which will allow you to provision up to 100 devices that can install the application.

As for updating, there is no automated way for you to do this. A new version of the app will nee to be emailed to each device owner and installed manually via iTunes and sync.

Maybe you should try this:

http://www.fancyfon.com/index.php/famoc.html

Ciao Grassino87,

there's a formal way created by Apple: your client must register as a enterprise company. They will not able to sell application to AppStore, but they can deploy their application to their employees: it's called "In-House Distribution".

You can find more details here: http://developer.apple.com/programs/iphone/enterprise/

Using standard AdHoc method will limit potential sell agents to 99 device...

May be it's not the true way, but you can use testflight. There you could target your sales persons as testers and provide new update via weblink-shortener. For us it work seamlessly. Plus there's a nice API to find problems in your app.