An nameless reader quotes a report from The Verge: Apple would possibly lastly enable retro online game emulators on the App Retailer, however this month, the corporate rejected submissions of iDOS 3, a brand new model of the favored DOS emulator, and UTM SE, an app that allows you to emulate working methods like Home windows on iOS. In each cases, Apple stated the brand new releases violate guideline 4.7 of the App Overview Tips, which is the one that enables for retro sport emulators. Chaoji Li, the developer of iDOS 3, shared a few of Apple’s reasoning for the rejection with The Verge. “The app supplies emulator performance however just isn’t emulating a retro sport console particularly,” in accordance with Apple’s discover. “Solely emulators of retro sport consoles are applicable per guideline 4.7.” “Once I requested what modifications I ought to make to be compliant, they’d no thought, nor after I requested what a retro sport console is,” Li stated in a weblog put up. “It is nonetheless the identical outdated unreasonable reply alongside the road of ‘we all know it once we see it.'”
UTM posted about its rejection on X. “The App Retailer Overview Board decided that ‘PC just isn’t a console’ no matter the truth that there are retro Home windows / DOS video games for the PC that UTM SE may be helpful in working,” in accordance with the put up. UTM additionally famous that Apple is barring UTM SE from being notarized for third-party app shops as a result of the app apparently violated guideline 2.5.2. That rule states that apps need to be self-contained and may’t execute code “which introduces or modifications options or performance of the app, together with different apps.” Apple sometimes hasn’t allowed just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Nevertheless, and considerably confusingly, UTM stated that UTM SE would not embrace just-in-time compilation. Moreover, Apple clarified that guideline 4.7, which permits apps to supply “sure software program that isn’t embedded within the binary,” is “an exception that solely applies to App Retailer apps” however is not one which UTM SE qualifies for, UTM stated in a follow-up put up.
