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I thought the terms of service were changed so that you can't sell directly ...

How does it work? Do you just send ipa files that the user is expected to import into itunes?

Yes, but jailbreak is required.

makes sense, but I thought w1ntermute was distributing using a non-JB channel

There are mechanisms for sideloading to a limited number of devices. Those mechanisms used to be trivially exploitable to authorize an infinite number of devices, but AFAIK, Apple locked it down a lot more and blocked developers that were doing it quite a while ago.

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