Comment One valid reason for enterprise side loading... (Score 2) 98
Users who steal software deserve to get their devices infected with every piece of malware in existence. A lot of software in the Apple Store is free and most of the rest of it is rather inexpensive. I don’t sympathize even a tiny little bit with anyone who tries desperately hard to get something for nothing and then gets royally ripped off.
One valid reason for enterprise side loading is if the App is not offered through iTunes in your region. In many cases, it's not offered worldwide, due to all sorts of regulatory restrictions; this is the same as for music you get from iTunes, where the developer wants market segmentation, or the regulators (government, etc.) in a given area wants segmentation or control.
In those cases, the only way to get the app for your region is to pirate it. For example, in China, as in Russia and the Ukraine, as well as other countries, there are regulations against having strong encryption which does not contain a government back door. In other places, they don't want you to be able to use a particular type of VPN to get around the government firewall which is content based, and media companies don't want you using VPNs to get around regional distribution schemes. As an example, RIAA and MPAA have been trying very hard to get VPNs to be declared illegal, or to declare their actual origin of the their customers, in Australia, the U.K., and elsewhere.
So there are valid political free speech reasons you might want to do this, and there are commercial unavailability reasons you might want to do this. Both of these are internal grey or black market reasons, while being externally viewed as white or grey market, at worst.
Not that that's not what's happening here with the prirate app stores in China that are using voluntary enterprise enrollment in order to install pirate copies of apps on peoples iPhones.