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> But this is literally stealing Apple’s OS, shoving it in an emulator and charging people for it. That's a long shot. When I buy an iphone, I get a license to
by fluffything 7y ago
> But this is literally stealing Apple’s OS, shoving it in an emulator and charging people for it.
That's a long shot. When I buy an iphone, I get a license to use the OS the iphone comes with. If the license is for one device, I can't use it on many devices simultaneously, that much is clear.
However, for what Corellium is doing to be debatable, the license must say that one can only use the OS copy bundled with the device on the device itself, which sounds against "fair-use", and maybe even "anti-trust" worthy.
> How is this any different from a company that would sell you a preconfigured hackintosh?
Selling a pre-configured hackintosh isn't illegal on any jurisdiction as long as you have a valid license for the OS that you ship, in the same way that selling any laptop on ebay isn't illegal either, as long as the copy of the OS is legal.
If Corellium has one iPhone with iOS for every VM that's running at all times in a warehouse somewhere, then what they are doing is against Apple's EULA, which at most means that Apple doesn't need to give them support, but definitely not illegal.
Also, the real sad thing is that Apple is not providing this service themselves, and instead have killed emulation on XCode.
- nickles 7y ago> Selling a pre-configured hackintosh isn't illegal on any jurisdiction as long as you have a valid license for the OS that you ship This theory was tested a decade ago by a company named Psystar and didn’t work. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
- crtlaltdel 7y ago> Also, the real sad thing is that Apple is not providing this service themselves, and instead have killed emulation on XCode. Is this new? I swear I was emulating and iPhone SE a couple of months ago for a react-native project. Or are you referring to something else? Something i’m missing here?
- fluffything 7y agoYes, this functionality is deprecated in the latest Xcode, the next Xcode version won't support it AFAIK.
- crtlaltdel 7y ago...well thats lame...and dramatically nerfs my ability to effectively debug layout issues
- jakeashacks 7y agoIt isn't. Simulators are still a thing, but they're not like Corellium. They may look like iOS but they can't run iOS apps or iOS binaries (apps have to be compiled specifically for the simulator). That's because the simulator is just an app that looks like iOS, but works completely differently on the inside.
- crtlaltdel 7y agothanks for the info! great to know!
- rhodysurf 7y agoYou were using the simulator, which is not an emulator
- jakeashacks 7y agoXcode provides simulators, software that looks like iOS but works completely differently on the inside.
- soulofmischief 7y agoBootlegging as an industry led to a lot of other crimes. I also think most of us here are glad it happened. It was a natural social response to an unnatural restriction in freedom.