Posted 24 May 2014 - 01:27 PM
All these Chinese sites, gets around the need for jailbreaking by cleverly working within the rules of Apple’s own bulk enterprise license. Once obtained, the license allows companies to sign apps, then send those apps to their own employees without having to deal with the official App Store. This can be used, for instance, for app development purposes. What Kuaiyong, the company behind these sites, appears to be doing is obtaining apps in whatever way (either a cracked or purchased version, which is unclear), then signing them with the enterprise license signature. Rather than distributing the apps solely to employees, the signed apps are made available on these sites for anyone to download.
Now, Apple doesn’t want you to use this loophole in such a way. Apple’s own explainer on distributing enterprise apps states that a company should limit access to the distribution signature, which means the company is aware it can be used in the way Kuaiyong is. The likely reason you don’t see a US site doing the same thing as Chinese sites are, essentially, because China is a lawless land of piracy and copyright infringement. The reason why you, sitting at your computer desk in a place that isn’t China, can’t obtain and distribute signed apps like Kuaiyong is because you don’t have a legal business signed up for the bulk enterprise license. If you did have a legal business set up for that, you could technically make your own version of Kuaiyong or any other Chinese site.
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