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I am an expert in iOS dev but I use and want to like Android. It is quite annoying... I really do not like the walled garden of Apple and on Android devices, ev

I am an expert in iOS dev but I use and want to like Android. It is quite annoying... I really do not like the walled garden of Apple and on Android devices, even cheap MTK ones I am quite handy at installing what I want, but for some reason I find Android development a real pain compared to iOS where I find most older things (stuff, as it goes in life, needs to mature) very obvious and easy. I would say what most annoys me about iOS is the GPL thing which is the reason, among others, there are no emulators in the Appstore, at least no relevant ones. As owner of a museum and fan of old machines I cannot do without emulators. On my Android tablet I have around 50. Emulators is a niche but no GPL is hampering a lot for everyone on iOS.

TheCoreh 10y ago
The GPL incompatibility issue has nothing to do with Apple not allowing emulators. (After all there are BSD/MIT emulators) They don't want (non-sandboxed) interpreters running unreviewed code. Right now the only interpreter allowed to be used with downloaded code is webkit's JS JIT.
- tluyben2 10y ago
  There are multiple reasons as I said: one is the one you say but some emulators I use are under the GPL and use many GPL libs. But yes the other restriction sucks too. The point was cannot normally use emulators under iOS which stands, whatever the reason may be.
  - tluyben2 10y ago
    For instance [0] which I use by far the most has both problems; however with another license the runtime issues would be fixable. For instance, recompile the runtime with emscripten. Luckily there is webmsx now which looks promising, but that is not there yet. [0] https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX https://github.com/openMSX/openMSX