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Apple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally | TechCrunch
Submitted 7 months ago by sv1sjp@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
joewilliams007@kbin.melroy.org 7 months ago
then again, theres no reason to buy apple in the first place. so why does this even matter
abfarid@startrek.website 7 months ago
I know that this is Fedi and “Apple bad”, but iPads are great devices and if you get older versions second-hand they are usually worth the price. And since Apple is being forced into making these devices more open, they get better and better.
joewilliams007@kbin.melroy.org 7 months ago
i dont think ipads are the best. Samsungs tablets since the tab s7 do great. Have it for four years now heavily in use in school and university. Sideloading all the shit i want.
4am@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Android invades your privacy SO much less, Google is just the BEST 🙄
joewilliams007@kbin.melroy.org 7 months ago
google and samsung suck just as much. Custom rom's for the win. Besides on Android at least you dont have to use a google account and can use aurora store or apks. And you can easily set a filter to not allow any apps or system apps to use internet.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because Apple set trends that the whole industry follows, and if nothing happens then every phone maker will bring this shit too.
joewilliams007@kbin.melroy.org 7 months ago
well. companies will do every thing that is legal in order to make the most money possible. doesnt have to do anything with feelings or trends
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
Dolphin on iPad fuck yessssssssssssss
DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.social 7 months ago
Dolphin requires JIT compilation and that is still verboten under these new guidelines.
Further, the rule change says that these apps are allowed to "Download" ROMs, it doesn't say that they can just play anything they want, it in fact says that they have to provide an index of everything their software might run and where it is downloaded from. The rules are not going to allow emulators as we know and love them. It says specifically that the software offered under the guidelines must be offered via In App Purchases, so in all,
A) Emulators can exist
B) They can download ROMs
C) You have to comply with all applicable laws while you offer an emulator that allows people to download ROMs ಠ_ಠ
D) "Software offered in apps under this rule must: use in-app purchase in order to offer digital goods or services to end users."
Which in whole means that they've allowed (for example) Sega to offer an Emulator app that will run ROMs of games that Sega owns, but they have to sell the ROMs to you individually via IAPs.
Feel free to read their guidelines at https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#third-party-software, because there isn't any way in my reading to interpret those rules as allowing something like Higan to exist on the app store, the new rules are such a narrow carve out that it's hard to imagine that anyone is able to provide an emulator for iOS any time soon. They've opened a door that basically nobody could walk through and the people who could walk through it wouldn't need to because they could just distribute the ROMs with the emulator to begin with, it's business as usual for Apple.
shinratdr@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
That’s not how I interpret that. I think they’re just saying that if your app does offer digital goods, you have to use IAP. Not that any app in this category has to include IAP to be accepted.
Apple is protecting its bottom line here. In other words if Nintendo was to release a classic arcade, they don’t just get to circumvent IAP rules in non-DMA countries because of this change. But I don’t see any wording that says apps cannot forgo offering any IAPs and just allow you to add content via Files like all other apps do.
If they intended your definition, they wouldn’t leave it vague. There would be a specific provision that says “Apps cannot access files or software from the system, or offer an in-app browser or other online resource to add files to the app.”
Moreover, this change is specifically targeted at Riley Testut and AltStore, which was founded so he could distribute his emulator, Delta. Your interpretation would fully prevent that app from being offered, so I really don’t think that is what Apple was intending.
Lack of JIT is crippling though, hopefully that will change soon.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Well, this is indeed good news.
willya@lemmyf.uk 7 months ago
Wow, wonder if Delta will be on the AppStore soon. Damn good emulator.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is so cool. I want to play Atari on my Apple TV
Toes@ani.social 7 months ago
April 1st was a few days ago