Is there a way to share and synchronize application folders for iOS simulators

Our sales team often needs to provide demos of applications under development. We used many methods to install them on our laptops, but everything was very manual.

The original method we used was to download the source code and compile each project for each seller. A lot of time and annoying.

Then we thought a bit and realized that we could copy the “Applications” folder for the iOS simulator and just go through the iOS application folder for simulators on every laptop seller. Much better, but still the manual part of copying them to each laptop.

So, I started to think about some folder synchronization options for macs and came across this method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWoXPWlu_Dk

Very amazing and seems to fit my needs exactly. I had one central shared folder where I could download new iOS apps, and then sellers' laptops automatically synced with this apps folder, and new apps just popped up without having to have their laptops here.

Unfortunately, the iOS simulator does not seem to recognize the Applications folder when it is a symbolic link or an alias. Is there any Mac magic that could do this job? (Usually I’m a Windows guy, I just recently worked in the iOS world, so there may be something basic that I'm missing here).

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