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 permits you to emulate working techniques like Home windows on iOS. In each situations, Apple mentioned the brand new releases violate guideline 4.7 of the App Evaluation Tips, which is the one that enables for retro recreation emulators. Chaoji Li, the developer of iDOS 3, shared a few of Apple’s reasoning for the rejection with The Verge. “The app offers emulator performance however isn’t emulating a retro recreation console particularly,” in response to Apple’s discover. “Solely emulators of retro recreation consoles are applicable per guideline 4.7.” “Once I requested what adjustments I ought to make to be compliant, they’d no concept, nor after I requested what a retro recreation console is,” Li mentioned in a weblog submit. “It is nonetheless the identical outdated unreasonable reply alongside the road of ‘we all know it once we see it.'”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 Evaluation Board decided that ‘PC 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 operating,” in response to the submit. 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 must be self-contained and might’t execute code “which introduces or adjustments options or performance of the app, together with different apps.” Apple sometimes hasn’t allowed just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Nonetheless, and considerably confusingly, UTM mentioned that UTM SE does not embody 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 mentioned in a follow-up submit.
