After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS

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Available now for iOS/iPadOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id1564628856

Quote from GitHub:

UTM SE ("slow edition") uses a threaded interpreter which performs better than a traditional interpreter but still slower than JIT. This technique is similar to what iSH does for dynamic execution. As a result, UTM SE does not require jailbreaking or any JIT workarounds and can be sideloaded as a regular app.
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After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS

PC emulation comes to iPhones.
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variablevector said:
How incredibly gracious of them to let you run some code on your own device. Truly groundbreaking thought leadership.
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Nothing gracious, their hand has been forced by EU regulations and they realised that third party stores with emulators might actually convince EU users to sideload and they just pre-empted that. Still doesn't support JIT compilation though, so emulation is limited to to older devices.
animishticomb said:
lol imagine depending on a company to "approve" shit to run on a machine I purchased....
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That is what happens on all game consoles, so not a revolutionary idea. Also, it was not Apple but Google that lost the case against Epic for its Play Store monopoly.
 
Even with closed source and nature full of restrictions, going against the odds they still reached the top.

Now whatever their reasons were for the restrictions, these actually helped the competitors to stand against apple by offering things which were simply not allowed on iOS.

Now due to EU apple is opening all the flood gates. This is even more disturbing for the competitors, leaving them with less things to offer.
 
t3chg33k said:
Also, it was not Apple but Google that lost the case against Epic for its Play Store monopoly.
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LOL what does that mean? Seriously what mental gymnastics people will do to believe in a company..

Richest thugs get away with murder means that they aren't thugs?
Heisen said:
This is even more disturbing for the competitors, leaving them with less things to offer.
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The day they are forced to play on a level field it will be the beginning of end for them...anyways it's just the us that's still fooled by apple tax and ofcourse other countries citizens those who worship us blindly... Other countries they are just a minor player anyways
 
animishticomb said:
The day they are forced to play on a level field it will be the beginning of end for them
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As long as majority of their customers are happy the company will thrive. A company/business is nothing without it's customers and customers can be fooled once or twice but not over and over again to make a 3.5 trillion dollar company.

Only businesses with credibility survive in the long run.
 
animishticomb said:
LOL what does that mean? Seriously what mental gymnastics people will do to believe in a company..

Richest thugs get away with murder means that they aren't thugs?

The day they are forced to play on a level field it will be the beginning of end for them...anyways it's just the us that's still fooled by apple tax and ofcourse other countries citizens those who worship us blindly... Other countries they are just a minor player anyways
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It means what I said in the post and what has been accepted judicially. Apple successfully argued its analogy to consoles in terms of making the hardware and then controlling the software ecosystem to provide a specific user experience, much like what Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo do for consoles.

Google lost the case because they engaged in the textbook definition of monopoly i.e. trying to capture majority of the market by subsiding or offering something for free (Android) and then arm-twisting partners to carry only their product/service (Play Store/Google Pay) or tying functionalities to their specific implementation (Play Services), for their monetary gain.

Google has been much worse in its conduct because of its scale. Microsoft at least licenses Windows properly, though they are also in hot water with bundling.

In case you didn't read my post, I started with commenting how stupid it is for Apple to get away with what it does due to poor regulations, something that only the EU has just addressed.
 
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princeoo7 said:
but why would one run this on iphone :angelic:
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A lot of users have been using the non-SE version on the iPad for years, mainly for DOS and Win 9X games, so makes less sense to use it on the iPhone.

Also, you can enable JIT through sideloading, so probably for those users it makes no sense to use the SE version. With PC emulator category being opened up, the DOS emulators will also make it to the store now, so UTM SE will only be known for opening the gateway to PC emulation on iOS.
 
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