&gt; I&#x27;m surprised we haven&#x27;t seen this emergent behavior for iOS yet. As more and more people have Xcode and a dev license, we could have a sufficiently large amount of people to skip the app store for apps that will never be allowed.<p>If this ever happened and got popular, you can be certain that Apple would shoot it down in an upcoming iOS release.<p>Because that&#x27;s how Apple works: No freedom permitted on &quot;their&quot; devices.