It's really weird seeing Apple say "sure, we allowed a console emulator, but PC emulation is still banned". If anything I expected them to allow the latter befo

It's really weird seeing Apple say "sure, we allowed a console emulator, but PC emulation is still banned". If anything I expected them to allow the latter before the former. On the other hand, the reason why UTM got banned is completely obvious: it lets users operate desktop software with a finger. That's the same reason why iDOS 2 got banned[0], and if iSH shipped with a graphical output they wouldn't have unbanned that either. The whole reason why the iPad exists at all as a separate product line with a separate UI toolkit from Macs is purely because Apple - specifically, Steve Jobs - said so. Apple's entire foray into multitouch was borne out of Steve Jobs wanting to spite a 'friend'[1] at the pen computing division of Microsoft. It can be summed up with the phrase "who wants a stylus"?[2] That's why they continue to saddle the iPad with inferior, buggier phone software, because they think it's literally the only way a tablet can be made. So literally anything that might let someone turn an iPhone or an iPad into a Windows tablet is considered the worst kind of heresy in the Apple religion. Anyway, I hope the EU smacks Apple down on this, because Apple very clearly promised that EU DMA compliant Notarization would only filter for technical compatibility, not taste. [0] Yes, Apple said a bunch of stuff about how it "allows content without licensing", but we saw with Delta how easily that concern crumbles away. [1] I do not believe Jobs could have friends in the way we understand the word. [2] The Apple Pencil doesn't count. A "stylus" is a physical tool intended to work around software not being designed for touch.