Hello,
if you have a product and would like to have an iPhone Application for this commercial product (this application just communicates with web service and presents some data)
how can you distribute this iPhone-App by customers of this product? only about Apple-Store? Would Apple allow to store there an application for the commercial product? Can be this application free?
Thank you so much! Best regards.
Absolutely. There are many products like this in the App Store already. You will just have to provide Apple with demo accounts they can use during the approval process to test your application. Neither of the other distribution models (Ad Hoc, Enterprise) will work for what you want because you need the device id or physical access to the device.
If you intend to distribute your app for free (because it is bundled to a commercial product anyway) you could circumvent the App Store by creating a web based application.
Nextstop is a good example that it is possible to create web apps which feel native.