I've joined the apple developer program as an individual developer. My question is what do I use for the company/organization token for the application's bundle ID? (I have no web site.)
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
Are you talking about supplying the organization name and identifier when you create a new project? If so, you can put whatever name you want as the organization as long as it's unique. Going with Apple as an organization name would be a bad idea. If you're working solo, you can use your name as the organization name and something like com.yourfirstandlastname as the organization identifier.
The organization identifier is a way to uniquely identify yourself and your apps. It doesn't require you to have a website. The organization name is the name that appears in the copyright notice in the source code files Xcode creates.
In addition to this just consider that you may want to buy a suitable domain name just to have control over it.
Your name is OK until you get successful & want to sell the app (who knows how things can turn out), then you end up selling the rights to use that identifier as the new app owner needs it to keep compatibility 😟
Thanks Drew and Mark for your help - The part that still bothers me is that whatever name I choose it must be unique. My application creates a .plist file in ~/Library/Preferences and whatever bundle ID I construct must not collide with any other app - I can't possibly guarantee uniqueness. Maybe I'm making too much of this. Suppose my name is John Smith.
The organization identifier and the app name both have to be identical to cause a conflict. The chances of somebody with the same name as you having the same app name are very slim. If you have a common name like John Smith and are worried about conflicts, make up a company name.
I believe Apple will inform you if it is unavailable if you submit to the App store.
I wonder if Apple also check when you request a developer certificate to sign apps too, otherwise you could simply call yourself Adobe.com & sign apps as if you were them. Apple will revoke certificates if a developer is found to be doing bad things, so they have a duty to check for uniqueness & not issue duplicates.
Hello disguise,
As Drew Reece suggested, you should have your own domain name. In addition to guaranteeing you a unique identifier, the identifier is traceable back to you. Apps that use untraceable identifiers are typically malware. You don't want your app to go into that category.
Xcode project's company/organization?
