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Our customer wants us to write a custom application for him that he can use on a handful of iPads in his company. This application is probably only useful for this one customer (maybe for two or three more in the future, but only after additional customization).

I read that if the customer subscribes to Apple's Volume Purchasing Program, we are able to provide him with a custom B2B application. This, however, seems to be restricted to US developers (or customers? or both?).

What are the alternatives for Europe-based (or, more generally, non-US) software developers and their local customers?

Heinzi
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The "correct" solution to this is that your client creates an Enterprise Account with Apple to develop in-house apps. You create that app and sign it with profile/identity of your client.

Yes, your client will have to pay a (rather small) yearly fee. But with any luck they will want more apps anyway. :)

You could of course create the Enterprise account for yourself, telling Apple that you'd develop for yourself and use it to distribute that app to any clients that want to go this way. You won't set up a shop system anyway and Apple would probably not notice or care. But it would be a breach of the Enterprise Account contract and thereby I do NOT recommend doing this. Your client will probably gladly pay the yearly developer fee.

Morothar
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What I'm doing in a similar situation is creating a web based intranet app that mimics tablet functionality. There are a number of JQuery frameworks that will work for this, like Sencha Touch. This would allow you to avoid the Apple "pay wall" and work with Android based tablets and even webkit based browsers on desktop/laptops as well.

jfrankcarr
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