What sacrifices have been made for the codeapp to be appstore compliant ?

[alx-xlx]

Appstore has a pretty strict compliance that every developer has to follow. and I am just guessing that there are a lot of stuff that could have been done on the codeapp that isn't there just because of appstore compliance issue.

is there any features that can be implemented for some of use folks who self-sign an IPA file without going through the appstore.

I am willing to pay and most of other folks too, if there can be a separate release or project with better functionality.

[bummoblizard]

Thanks for the interesting question! The restrictions mostly come from iOS itself instead of the App Store. In particular - the inability to spawn subprocesses and to execute unbundled binaries. Also, the lack of hypervisor support prevented us from running a full fletched Linux VM on M series iPads.

Some of these restrictions can be overcome using jailbreaking but not all. Unfortunately skipping App Store wouldn't help much.