An nameless reader quotes a report from The Verge: Apple may lastly permit 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 cases, Apple stated the brand new releases violate guideline 4.7 of the App Evaluate 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 supplies emulator performance however is just not emulating a retro recreation console particularly,” based on 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 thought, nor after I requested what a retro recreation console is,” Li stated in a weblog submit. “It is nonetheless the identical previous unreasonable reply alongside the road of ‘we all know it after we see it.'”
UTM posted about its rejection on X. “The App Retailer Evaluate Board decided that ‘PC is just not 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,” based on 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 may’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 stated that UTM SE would not embody just-in-time compilation. Moreover, Apple clarified that guideline 4.7, which permits apps to supply “sure software program that’s not 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 submit.