Ondrej Holzman Officially, only developers who are provided directly by Apple have access to beta versions of the iOS mobile operating system. However, the practice is that almost everyone can try the test version of the new system. Developers offer their free slots for a small fee to regular users, who can now, for example, try iOS 6 early.
The whole situation is simple: in order to run iOS beta on your device, you need to be registered in Apple's developer program, which costs $99 a year. However, each developer gets 100 slots available for registering additional test devices, and since of course only a few use this number, slots are also sold outside the development teams.
Although developers are prohibited from carrying out such activities, as they are not allowed to release the prepared software to the public, they easily circumvent these prohibitions and offer registration to the program to other users for fees in the order of several dollars. When they run out of all the slots, they create a new account and start selling again.
Users then just have to find the beta version of the given system to download on the Internet and install it without any problems. However, that may now be over, as several servers selling developer slots and betas have been shut down. Everything was apparently unleashed by Wired, which published in June article, in which he described the entire business based on UDID (unique ID for each device) registration.
At the same time, slots are not being traded, UDIDs have been illegally registered for a few years, and Apple has not yet implemented any measures to prevent this. A year ago, though speculated, that Apple started prosecuting disobedient developers, but this was not confirmed information.
However, several of the servers mentioned in the Wired article (activatemyios.com, iosudidregistrations.com…) have been down in recent weeks and the server Mac Stories discovered that Apple was probably behind it. He contacted the owners of several servers dealing with the sale of free slots and received interesting answers.
One of the owners of a similar website, who wished to remain anonymous, revealed that he had to shut down the site because of a copyright complaint from Apple. Among other things, he also stated that since June, when the first iOS 6 beta reached developers, he has earned $75 (roughly 1,5 million crowns). However, he is confident that his service did not in any way violate the rules associated with iOS 6, so he is going to launch a new site soon.
Although the other owner did not want to comment on the situation, he wrote that Wired was responsible for the whole situation. Also CEO of a hosting company fused revealed that Apple insisted that several sites selling UDIDs be shut down.
I'm fine with sharing information about the new iOS among non-developers, but just offering an iOS package for download seems like an unreasonable risk to me. Btw, the device doesn't even have to be registered in the developer account, I've tried it, so just throw iOS on the web and millions of people can use it freely, so selling slots seems like a lure to ignorant non-developers.
Without a registered UDID, the beta can be uploaded, but it can no longer be activated...
But I already have it, you just have to upload it to your iOS and not take it as a clean reinstall
In iTunes, I mean hold ALT and click on find updates, then manually select the package with iOS6, it works fine like this, I haven't tried a clean install.
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And ie in win itunes or in itunes for mac?? In OSX I'm sure it's alt/option and click check for updates.
at Win :-)
Jojo, that explains the difference ;)
I have the nonsense myself on one development and 2 "non-development" (or not registered in a developer account) devices, and on neither of the devices do I use the development Apple ID through which I log in to the Apple Developer Program. So it's nonsense.
The current beta can be uploaded as well as beta registration, so I don't know what Apple is doing...
Tested exactly like that.
It really works, no need to have a developer account. Tested on iP4S.
and which version of ipsw specifically works for you without activation codes?