Faced with an existential threat to its hot patching service, Rollout.io is appealing to Apple to extend its app oversight into post-publication injections of JavaScript code.
CTO and cofounder Eyal Keren has penned an open letter to Apple asking the i-obsessed device maker to develop and deploy a "Live Update Service Certificate" as a way to sign JavaScript code so it can be pushed safely to iOS apps for instant content updates.
Apple already reviews iOS apps destined for its App Store, to make sure they conform with its shifting and sometimes vague rules. In so doing, it manages mostly to limit the presence of malicious apps while also enforcing modest minimum standards for quality.
The review process, however, can take anywhere from a few days to a week or more, which turns out to be inconvenient when app developers want to make immediate changes to their code.
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