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by run-types 1737 days ago
WOW! That's insane. If made efficiently enough, you could emulate iOS on a non-iOS mobile device. That would be disruptive.
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And also very easy to brake on apple's end.
Only for future releases. If it works currently for iOS 12, it'll keep working for those builds of iOS 12. I fail to see how Apple can break what already works for code they can't/won't change.
No - like, Apple sends a DMCA complaint or legal complaints to the project and the developers saying to shut it down or they'll bring in the lawyers.
DMCA what? I don’t see anything wrong with emulation.
That won't work in large parts of the world, like China.
Pirate Bay
They have the power to disable your OS remotely for any reason. I think it's safe to say that ship has sailed.
Could give the librem 5 or PinePhone a big boost. But it would not help with battery life.
I think the number of people who have a Librem phone but want to run iOS on it is basically zero.
Wrong. There are people who would like hardware kill switches but are required to run either iOS or Android apps for work. With iOS in a VM, you could truly "log out of work" and shutdown that part of your phone when not needed without carrying a second work-specific device.
With a $150 GrapheneOS Pixel for things that matter, you could shut the other phone off and truly "shut off work".
Yep. Just buy an anything-shitty Android phone in 7-11 and use that
And they would not want to do that on a Librem phone. Librem phone is for the tiny subset of people who want a computer with a free BIOS as well as a fully-free Linux distro like PureOS.