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The first Apple-approved emulators for the iPhone have arrived (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This is the other side of OSS. As long as the clones share their source code too, this is completely legal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Riley Testut is right, but he's kind of bitching, he can just release GBA4iOS on the App Store and people will use it instead of that crap filled with ads. What if he just had summited GBA4iOS to the App Store before this developer? Oh I know why, because he's trying to get his AltStore approved and wanted to have GBA4iOS exclusively there to drive people into it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Isn't the other issue that alternative app stores are only available in the EU? So even with the approval of emulators it would still be inaccessible to the US since Riley is only going to release it on altstore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, since AltStore is already able to install on your iPhone for years via sideloading

And the documentation to do so: https://faq.altstore.io

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That's a thing as well yes. Maybe he's betting that Apple will eventually make alternative app stores also available on the US, who knows. The fact is that he seems to be clearly holding back the emulator.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Why is there no easy way to report stuff like this in the App Store? Apple puts almost all its eggs in the preemptive review basket, and that’s never going to be good enough.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

And looks like the first one is already stolen with a bunch of ad trackers added. That's disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

iPhone is slowly becoming more like android, and android is slowly becoming more like iphone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

And utterly unsurprising