with the iOS SDK (iPad and iPhone), you can publish on the AppStore or to a group of less than 100 users - that's the special AdHoc distribution.
you just need the devices IDs of your friends/contacts and package your app with them...

Originally Posted by Laure

with the iOS SDK (iPad and iPhone), you can publish on the AppStore or to a group of less than 100 users - that's the special AdHoc distribution.
you just need the devices IDs of your friends/contacts and package your app with them...

Laure,
Thank you very much. The key words are "AdHoc distribution"
-Doug

Nice thread great to see constructive answers to OP question. Hopefully her problems are resolved. I would be nice to see a final response after the OP achieves her goal. I thank those members whom offered a solution

This is legal. Technically Cydia (which is legal) is a app.

If you want to get your app onto the device you need to be a registered developer and pay the $99. You don't need to use Xcode but you do have to have a properly provisioned device. The provisioning profiles expire after a couple of months so you would have to keep your developers licence current.

Depending on what you are doing with the app you might want to consider making it a web app and just accessing it from your iPad.

I don't know of any development engines that support Pascal on the iPad so you may be hooped there anyway.

Hope this helps. Check out my list of iOS development engines in this post.

mike
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Just for arguments sake, let's suppose Corporation 'X' wants to develop an app for it's salesforce of 500, but doesn't want the competitors to be able to have it, can they develop that app purely for themselves and keep it out of the public domain ie App Store. I'm assuming this is quite popular, particularly in the medical field.

Just curious

Peter

Hi yes you can there is a closed area for company internal developments, and those products are managed by a companies internal "app Store" . this is already very common in some sales type enterprises.

The enterprise developer program is exacly that

Originally Posted by MidLifePete

Just for arguments sake, let's suppose Corporation 'X' wants to develop an app for it's salesforce of 500, but doesn't want the competitors to be able to have it, can they develop that app purely for themselves and keep it out of the public domain ie App Store. I'm assuming this is quite popular, particularly in the medical field.

Just curious

Peter

When you create any app (as long as your a registered developer) that won't be in the AppStore because you don't want it there or if it's contains some stuff Apple doesn't want then it doesn't mean it can't run on the iDevice.

Sent from my interestingcompanionPad using iPF!

You have no real distribution options though - personal use ok... A few testers ok. No way to distribute to the "500 salesmen" without jail breaking

That's why the Enterprise license exists.

-t