App Store guidelines now allow game emulators; more
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After the EU commission fined Apple $2 billion and announced that it’s not satisfied with the changes the company made...
  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    but requires you to be connected to the same network as a computer running altstore.

    So you mean iOS doesn’t natively support JIT for App Store apps and requires hacky workarounds?

    • WolfLink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      iOS natively supports JIT (by which we mean writable and executable memory) but Apple locks it down to only two use cases:

      1. The JavaScript engine in Safari
      2. Support for running a debugger

      AltStore launches a debugger and connects it to your phone. Even though it’s not actually doing anything with a debugger, that’s enough to convince iOS to let your app use memory that’s both writable and executable (the key feature needed for JIT).

      Without JIT you need to either resort to a slower form of emulation or do something creative.