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Awesome! I hope Apple will not get the lawyers out for this project (especially for licensing issues)... but this is promising for the future!
by weird_trousers 1y ago
Awesome! I hope Apple will not get the lawyers out for this project (especially for licensing issues)... but this is promising for the future!
- walterbell 1y agoIt should be usable in Asahi Linux on Mac hardware.
- notpushkin 1y agoNot a practical suggestion, but would it be feasible to run xtool on jailbroken iOS devices? (I mean, those are definitely Apple-branded!)
- walterbell 1y agomaximal malicious compliance! Once Asahi Linux support matures (e.g. Thunderbolt external storage for software RAID) Mac Mini hardware with Linux for CI/CD will be competitive on price/performance/watt. If Apple would re-enable Linux VMs on iPad/iPhone, everyone could be happy. Thankfully Google is now shipping a full pKVM Linux VM ("Terminal") on Pixel phones, including USB-c docking to external keyboard and mouse. Hopefully that "inspires" Apple to restore the Linux VM functionality they removed three years ago. Then iPhone Pro + USB-c dock = Linux desktop for iOS app development, buying time for Apple to converge iOS/macOS/visionOS in +++ years.
- notpushkin 1y agoOkay, but what if what if we run it on Android on an iPhone [0] [0]: e.g. https://projectsandcastle.org/ https://projectsandcastle.org/
- walterbell 1y agoWish Corellium could work with Asahi to upstream Apple device support to mainline Linux.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI doubt it, as it's being announced on Swift.org.
- notpushkin 1y agoIn a forum post – it’s not an official announcement. But since it hasn’t been taken down yet I guess there is hope?
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoLikely, Apple won’t have any desire to take it down, as you still need to go through the App Store approval process, to sell on the App Store (and they still get their vig). But they also probably won’t go out of their way to support it. It could break, down the road.