![]() ![]() Statistics have shown that a significant amount of Apple users are Chinese based. Though English-speaking users cannot connect with and use the service, Kuaiyong provides a short explanation of what it does for foreign Apple users - along with a justification for providing the pirate app store: the apparent difficulty of Apple’s iTunes: The site is provided by a front company called Kuaiyong, which appears to be owned by Beijing YouRanTianDi Technology Co Ltd. That’s exactly how Apple designed in-house enterprise apps to work, although it’s not likely they envisioned the technology being used this way. Jailbreaking, of course, comes with the increased risks of bricking your iPhone, boosting vulnerability to malware, and blocking updatability to new iOS software. Thanks to this ingenious enterprise strategy, iPhone owners in China do not have to jailbreak their phones in order to install pirated apps - as Taiwanese blog MicGadget puts it, essentially the same app is being distributed, again and again, with the same license ID. It is not, however, such a good thing for Apple or for the developers who expect to be paid for those apps. And it seems to be a good thing for iPhone users, who are now getting free apps. ![]() ![]() That’s turned out to be a good thing for pirates in China, as over five million Chinese iPhone owners are currently using the site to find and install apps. Apple’s enterprise app deployment technology enables app distribution to an “unlimited number of iOS devices.” Essentially, enterprise app deployment enables corporations to function as their own app distributor, after getting a developer provisioning profile from Apple. ![]()
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