Time Travel: 2014

Rent an enterprise development account for use? ?

This sounds theoretically possible.

But in the IT field, things that sound theoretical are often unreliable.

Leasing an enterprise development account is also very unreliable, and it is even more unreliable than buying an enterprise development account.

Indeed, many companies will rent out corporate development accounts.

But you have to know that those who rent enterprise development accounts will definitely not rent them to just you.

The other people who rent accounts may not all want to conduct software testing honestly.

It is very likely that they want to bypass the AppStore review and release illegal applications through this mechanism.

If another developer who rents the same enterprise development account with you distributes software that violates relevant laws and regulations through the signature of the enterprise.

After the incident, when officials or platforms cracked down on this type of software, they often directly destroyed the corporate signature of the company's development account.

In this case, your software uses the same corporate signature.

Even if you don't do any illegal activities, there will be fire at the city gate and damage to the fish in the pond.

In short, there will be no place to cry when the time comes.

And even if everything goes smoothly, you use another company's signature when it comes to such a valuable piece of software.

What is the difference between this behavior and luring a wolf into the house?

In short, low-level mistakes will not be made if they are not made.

From this point of view, compared to applying enterprise signatures to distribute software.

It seems that using a personal developer account to distribute test applications is suitable for Lin Hui's current situation.

But to be honest, Lin Hui doesn't like either method very much.

In addition to these methods, are there any other methods?

Some people may wonder, when it comes to Apple development accounts, aren't there company development accounts in addition to personal development accounts and corporate development accounts?

Why not consider using a company to develop an account?

When it comes to application distribution, company/organization development accounts in the Apple App Store are as useless as personal development accounts.

They can only be distributed one hundred times.

Speaking of which, Lin Hui might try to apply for a company development account in a while.

Although company accounts are useless in application distribution.

However, when the company development account involves specific development, it allows multiple people to develop a software at the same time.

This will undoubtedly be helpful for future projects that require collaboration.

Apart from the several ideas that he had thought of before, Lin Hui could not think of any better ideas for the time being.

A good woman can't make a meal without rice. With TF going off track, Lin Hui doesn't have any good options now.

Rather than considering the workflow, Lin Hui feels that what he should consider now is the pricing issue after the application is launched.

After the previous workflow software was launched, it was priced at 18 yuan domestically and $2.99 ​​overseas.

However, this time and space Linhui does not intend to continue the previous pricing strategy.

When it comes to the workflow software, Lin Hui obviously just wants to make a fortune and leave.

Therefore the price must be higher.

etc.

Thinking of higher pricing, Lin Hui suddenly had an idea.

When it comes to application testing, in addition to application enterprise signature distribution, TF signature, and personal developer account distribution.

There is also a very strange way of test distribution:

——Use the redemption code to distribute test software for testing.

Of course, the redemption code in this time and space is different from the redemption code on TF.

It involves applying redemption codes for distribution.

The general operating process is:

The application is put on the shelf through the normal process, and then a vague introduction is arranged for the application.

Then set a price that’s enough to make people back off.

At such a price, most ordinary software consumers would never even consider this kind of application.

Testing is completely possible at this time.

Of course, when testing, developers do not need to spend extra money to let internal testers spend a lot of money to download the application.

You only need to distribute redemption codes to internal testers.

It's not Lin Hui's fault that Lin Hui didn't expect this method before.

Because generally speaking, very few efficient software is tested internally in this way.

On the contrary, some paid games often use redemption codes for internal testing.

Now that he suddenly thought of this, the more Lin Hui thought about it, the more he felt that it was very feasible.

However, this method still requires a little strategy when implemented.

It is necessary to consider the situation where users who do not know the truth accidentally pay to download.

Because no matter how outrageous the price is and how bizarre the introduction is, someone may accidentally download the software.

In order to avoid unnecessary leaks, a little adjustment must be made to the software structure.

It’s easier to say when it comes to this, just encapsulate the main functions of the software into a black box.

It is designed to be roughly similar to a secondary structure, so that even if a user downloads it, he will only get an empty shell software.

You must enter another code in the app to unlock all functions, similar to turning on the professional mode in the software.

It's just different from the professional mode of Nanfeng APP, which requires money to activate.

This time, the normal functions encapsulated by Lin Hui must be unlocked by entering the corresponding password.

Issues related to distribution are resolved.

The problem seems to have returned to the previous starting point, where to find internal testers?

Lin Hui still had no idea when it came to the internal testers.

However, Lin Hui felt that Huang Jing should have something to do.

After all, Huang Jing's senior sister is everywhere.

To be honest, Lin Hui had a lot on his mind about the closed beta.

The reason why it’s so troublesome to think so much,

It has something to do with Lin Hui's current identity.

If Lin Hui was a novice, there would be no need for internal testing.

After all, who cares about the problems with a program developed by a novice programmer.

But it's different now.

There are a bunch of Lin Hui blessed with titles, and I don’t know how many pairs of eyes are watching.

Waiting for Lin Hui to make a low-level mistake.

Even though Lin Hui can change his vest and release it, the so-called vest has no secret in the eyes of the platform.

There are no secrets in official eyes.

Under such circumstances, Lin Hui undoubtedly needs to be very cautious when doing things.

Lin Hui thought about the re-enactment of TestFlight from his previous life.

If the software is all tested internally through a mechanism similar to a redemption code.

Is it still necessary to recreate the previous TestFlight?

There is actually no conflict between the two.

Because in this time and space, only paid applications will have redemption codes when they are released and updated.

And the redemption codes you can get at a time are extremely limited.

Basically 100~200 redemption codes at a time.

Although this is not much, it can at least crush the efficiency of distribution through personal developer accounts.

But this is completely incomparable with the previous version of TestFlight that could easily distribute applications to be tested to up to 10,000 testers.

Except that the amount of distribution is not an order of magnitude.

In the previous life, the TestFlight application could be used on all platforms when distributed.

The application of redemption codes currently only covers mobile phones.

And the value of TestFlight in its previous life was not just in software distribution.

Everyone knows the value of the Apple App Store.

In its previous life, TestFlight was once known as the second app store.

This importance is evident.