[zomgbbq]

The reason Apple doesn't do this is they want to make the AppStore a safe-place and a worry free experience. If anyone can run whatever they wanted for whatever length of time they want, then it opens the door for malicious apps to exist. It's a trade off between safety/experience and flexibility. For folks like my Dad, who I took away his PC and replaced with an iPad, it's been great. I just don't worry about malware, viruses, or trojans he might install on his iPad because the odds are he can't get into too much trouble.

[cm2187]

I don’t believe a single second that they prevent you from sideloading your own app in the interest of security. It would be trivial to allow you to manually register your device and be exempt for this particular app, that wouldn’t weaken the platform in any way. This is purely milking users.

[fenomas]

GP was clearly referring to letting developers run apps on their own devices, not to letting them put malware into the app store where your dad can find it.