Comment by rezonant
4 months ago
Free provisioning: If you do not pay the developer fee an app installed via Xcode will work for 7 days. Afterwards the app on your phone will *stop working*, and you must open Xcode on your Mac again, and push a new build to your phone if you want to keep using it.
Paid provisioning: If you have paid the developer fee, a build will expire based on the amount of time left before that payment renews, so if you build and install an app a month before your developer fee renews, that build of the app (that you installed via Xcode) will stop working in 1 month.
We're stuck between two mafia families :-(
A.K.A. Digital Feudalism.
I've been doing it that way for years on the free account, never seemed like a bother to me. I usually have a tweak I want to make to the code anyway. But I suppose some might find it inconvenient.
In any case, to say you can't put your own apps on your phone without paying a fee is incorrect, which is the comment I was responding to.
Saying what youve said above and knowing full well how this works, but failing to mention a crucial fact like this is deceptive.
I guess some are more bothered by this than others. A bit harsh to claim there is deception going on. Like I said, I’ve never paid Apple a fee and I have several original apps on my iPhone.
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