Apple won't allow PC emulators on iOS

25 June 2024
Only retro game console emulators are okay.

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  • 26 Jun 2024

Anonymous, 25 Jun 2024I don't think you're making the point you think y... moreHaving one alternative to iOS phones is Knight Capitalism in shining armour? Lmao. What a John Deere degree of clownery when a cultic, profit-centric megacorp is given a free pass on restrictively locking down its hardware which is sold (not donated, rented or leased) to customers, just because...eh...because of $$$+++ reasons.

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    • 25 Jun 2024

    Anonymous, 25 Jun 2024Why drag us down to your miserable walled-garden level of i... moreYou do get it.

    Brands are doing costs cuts to avoid the bill of materials from getting more expensive.
    If new SoC , in case of 8g4, is $40-50 more expensive than current 8g3, then brands are going to sacrifice something or increase retail price.
    Do you think chinese brands are using domestic oled because they want to support local industry ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    865 was $40. 8g3 is almost $200. What 8g3 offers over 865 is not worth this difference.

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      • 25 Jun 2024

      raditz594, 25 Jun 2024And all 100 million of them know that iOS is hot garbage fo... moreIsn't that the point? The hardware is capable. It's the software that is lacking.

        Anonymous, 25 Jun 2024The gaming user base is over 100 million. Saying this that ... moreAnd all 100 million of them know that iOS is hot garbage for gaming

          Anonymous, 25 Jun 2024How foolish to think that no developments will happen and t... moreI've been using emulators since before you were born

            I guess they could reduce their guidelines to:

            If aPple can not make a fat profit out of anything the user want to do in the app, the app is prohibited...

            Just imagine that the user could run any old game they wanted on the phone they bought, without having to shell out more money to aPple - obviously aPple can not allow such a disloyal behaviour in their sect...

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              • 25 Jun 2024

              raditz594, 25 Jun 2024Luckily you don't need crazy hardware to run a DOS emu... moreHow foolish to think that no developments will happen and this will be stuck on Win95?

              I bet you're group were also calling emulators pointless before EU passed a law to give Apple users a taste of freedom lmao.

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                • 25 Jun 2024

                Anonymous, 25 Jun 2024Hope google does same, so geeks can stop asking qualcomm to... moreWhy drag us down to your miserable walled-garden level of imprisonment? Android is already getting crippled every major update since Google employees are using iphones.

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                  • 25 Jun 2024

                  raditz594, 25 Jun 2024Luckily you don't need crazy hardware to run a DOS emu... moreThe gaming user base is over 100 million. Saying this that affects almost no one is extremely ignorant.

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                    • 25 Jun 2024

                    raditz594, 25 Jun 2024I can't run Win95 on my iphone? It's over..The point is to run Windows applications.

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                      • 25 Jun 2024

                      XenoAX57, 25 Jun 2024Can't believe they have more powerful CPU than 8 gen 3... moreIf poor, stick to to your old inactive OS, no need to propagate propagandas here.

                        Minu, 25 Jun 2024Imagine using theoritically the most powerful processors in... moreCan't believe they have more powerful CPU than 8 gen 3 and has identical power to a core i9 12900 and still doesn't run Windows emulators.

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                          • 25 Jun 2024

                          2TruthsSomeJokes, 25 Jun 2024Ford declares that driving its trucks on non-asphalt paths ... moreI don't think you're making the point you think you're making because capitalism provides a solution. It's called Android.

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                            • 25 Jun 2024

                            Ford declares that driving its trucks on non-asphalt paths are illegal.
                            Fiskars declares that its scissors are only used to cut bond paper, anything else violates the law of the universe.
                            McDonalds declares that their food is only supposed to be eaten while fasting, any other form of consumption is a crime against humanity.
                            Apple declares that no other apps and programs or OS will run on its hardware, doing so will violate the moral code of happyland ethics.
                            Harley Davidson declares all other motorbikes bad, will lobby to allow only American(tm) bikes on American roads.

                            Capitalism, yeahhhh baby!

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                              • Anonymous
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                              • 25 Jun 2024

                              Hope google does same, so geeks can stop asking qualcomm to make SoC with unnecessary power that cost $240 ( like 8g4) ..

                                We don't need emulator we get actual PC games on our Apple Arcade Platform 🤣
                                ~android could never

                                  EU, time to yank Apple's ego out from the stratosphere and bring it back down to Earth.

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                                    • 25 Jun 2024

                                    Its my device, I paid for it, I should be able to use it as I want

                                      Anton .el PAPI., 25 Jun 2024and google is also going that way!!Maybe on the PlayStore but you can always side-load.

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                                        • 25 Jun 2024

                                        Well, how shall PC emulators be shown on (respectively with) iOS? The most sense would it make in using the IPhone then with a connected monitor. But in that scenario IPhones are too stupid to show the emulator App window in a fullscreen mode on the external monitor - without that letter-boxed / pillar-boxed appearance. As long as Apple produces such a crap with regards to Productivity topics, one does not even need to think about a decent usage-option for whatever PC emulator app.