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Yyyyup.

I'd only give these guys money if "AppDrop" isn't part of the value proposition for you.

(It isn't for me! An app toolkit that works like HC sounds fantastic - I wish they weren't muddying the waters with this app-store business.)

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I wouldn't mind being able to send apps to my friends and everything without having to pay another amount to Apple for a developer account. But I don't think it's going to happen.

It's certainly a bit of a subversive concept. Personally I think it's about time that the app distribution model was updated to allow people to share apps with each other. I think the idea here is to add a separate, small, side-distribution channel that you can use to send apps to friends and testers. Once you're done you can certainly market them in the Apple app store.

I think that would be fine with Apple as long as were only able to open apps sent to you, and there's no price attached.

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