- Don't show up in everyone's app store (the developer has to add you to the list.)
- Can only be distributed to 100 people.
If they did ban Podcaster for anti-competative reasons then 100 less people using iTunes podcasting isn't a big deal (I bet more than 100 iPhone users carry a Nokia as well as their iPhone just to use the excellent Nokia on-phone Podcasting software).
It also limits total earnings (in this case) to $10k, which is pretty bad.
Is it limited to 100 devices? I read the article so that you need at least 100 devices to be eligible to use it. Surely there are companies with more than 100 devices?
Ad Hoc isn't what companies are supposed to use. Ad Hoc is for developers and classroom situations. The solution for the enterprise is another distribution method all together that's not publicly available (only for companies > 500).
And as for little known, I have no idea why they went for that angle. Steve Jobs presented all three methods in his keynote. Ad Hoc is used by almost all developers, but has very very limited use outside of that (thanks to the 100 user cap, which is utter bullshit).
100 devices across your Apple account - so if he had 10 apps with 10 adhoc users each, that'd be it. At least, that's what I've been told by an iPhone developer.
- Don't show up in everyone's app store (the developer has to add you to the list.)
- Can only be distributed to 100 people.
If they did ban Podcaster for anti-competative reasons then 100 less people using iTunes podcasting isn't a big deal (I bet more than 100 iPhone users carry a Nokia as well as their iPhone just to use the excellent Nokia on-phone Podcasting software).
It also limits total earnings (in this case) to $10k, which is pretty bad.