Can you develop an internal business application for the iPhone?
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<p>My boss had an idea to develop an application that would be used for a few hundred contractors/employees and deploy it on an iPhone. So basically an internal business application that is an extension of the home-office application for mobile workers.</p>

<p>I was under the impression that it is only possible to distribute applications (except in a testing mode that expires frequently) to an iPhone via the Apple Store, and that Apple will only accept applications that are for general use. Not something that only a few hundred people world wide could use (say the data would be restricted to credentials that would only be given to such people).</p>

<p>Is my impression correct, or does Apple allow that kind of development?</p>

<p>EDIT: OK, my impression is wrong, at least partially. But here the company does not have 500 employees. Is it then not possible?</p>
