Apple app signing and certificates: how do people even circumvent/hack these things? I'm hardly able to do it legit.

Haha yeah - until you get used to it it really is a pretty confusing system. Especially way you add push notif certs into the mix.

it takes me about 3 hours every time I go to do the whole code signing process. granted I only do it every 6 months but still, for a company who's supposed to make stuff stupid simple their whole app ecosystem is incredibly convoluted. especially when compared to androids process.

It is the worst system

It took me ages to figure it out, I bought an iPad to do some Dev work and it took me about 3 hours to setup a Dev account and then figure out certificates