After Apple was kicked out: DOS emulator wants to go back to the iPhone – past the App Store

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After Apple was kicked out: DOS emulator wants to go back to the iPhone - past the App Store

The DOS emulator iDOS is no longer available in the App Store. Apple has since removed the app after a period of two weeks: Apple sees a violation of its rule 2.5.2, which requires apps to “remain self-contained”, reloading and executing code is – with a few exceptions – prohibited. With reference to this requirement, game emulators were also regularly banned from the App Store in the past.

He explained to Apple again what his app does and that the code is only executed in the emulator within the app sandbox and therefore does not pose a security risk, so Li shortly before the expulsion – but he has little hope that Apple’s position will change, and he I am tired of further discussion with the app store auditors. iDOS has been in the App Store since 2010, but over the years there have repeatedly been lengthy problems with Apple’s testing process.

He hopes that more users will recognize the advantage of sideloading and third-party app stores, the developer writes, and has now announced that iDOS will be brought back “somewhere” – after a reference to a new US bill that Apple and Google will open up the two large app platforms. Where and how iDOS will be made available to iPhone users remains open for the time being – for example, the AltStore sideloading tool could be chosen. The DOSbox-based app is also available via Github offered as a source for download.

In any case, the iDOS developer Chaoji Li does not want to make the changes to the app required by Apple in order to be allowed to remain in the App Store – accordingly, he also let the deadline pass. The removal of crucial functions such as file sharing would be “a betrayal of their own users”, who would have bought the emulator precisely because of this, the developer continues. File sharing makes it possible to transfer programs and games from a desktop PC or Mac to the iPhone and iPad app.

Existing buyers of the app can still download it from the app store via the purchase history. If that is no longer possible one day, he is not responsible, according to the developer.

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