What is the apple license good for? It costs almost S$150 PER year. Now that's alot of money especially for students. Definitely we should not be just blindly signing up with an account if we do not know the use of it.
Let's go through the uses of it.
1. It allows you to upload your app on to appstore. Yes, and that's the main point of it. Do however note that for your app to be downloadable, you need a current valid license. That is to say, if you have submitted an app onto app store, and your apple license has expired, your application WILL NOT be downloadable.
2. It allows you to deploy your code onto a device. i.e. iphone/pad/pod. That's quite a shocker for me originally. But yea, Apple controls their stuff tightly.
Sure you can run your apps on the simulator, but you will be restricted to CRUD kind of apps, since you have no access to the accelerometer, GPS and bluetooth functions in the iPhone.
So if you are looking at using maps, playing balancing games, and chatting via bluetooth, its quite necessary to get the license.
Of coz, teams can use a 'Shared' license. But do need that each license can only deploy up to a 100 devices. So do not misuse it by sharing it with too many friends.
Jason
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