[HN Gopher] Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtua...
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Apple just lost its lawsuit trying to ban iOS virtual machines
Author : mulle_nat
Score : 104 points
Date : 2023-05-09 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| WirelessGigabit wrote:
| I thought they dropped the suit 2 years ago...
| https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/11/apple-settles-law...
| omgomgomgomg wrote:
| Parallel or something like that lets you run windows on mac os.
|
| I think thats a fair decision, always found macs looking nice,
| but dislike many of the apps. Windows and ms suite on mac is on
| my bucket list now.
| shmerl wrote:
| Apple is being their dumb self trying to ban VMs.
| m463 wrote:
| but now can I run a virtual machine on an android device?
| ipaddr wrote:
| Yes.. legally
| judge2020 wrote:
| Legally you 'can', but does apple have to support it? do
| they have to expose those apis to the public? are they
| forced to implement them and spend the time to do
| validation testing for it?
| kurthr wrote:
| Depends on what you want to emulate (do you want access to
| phone capabilities), but this is the first link I found:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuUnjO8eUEw
| Prickle wrote:
| I assume you mean "Can I run a virtual machine of an android
| device?"
|
| The answer is yes. Since forever ago.
|
| You can find an official guide here:
| https://source.android.com/docs/setup/create/avd
| jeroenhd wrote:
| Currently, you're limited to QEMU with software emulation or
| a Linux proot/chroot. KVM support isn't in a stable version
| of Android yet but it's coming soon. With an unlocked
| bootloader and potentially a few kernel tweaks you probably
| could (as well as Windows and any other compatible OS).
|
| I don't think the experience will be very usable, though.
| iPhones contain dedicated hardware that Android devices don't
| have (and vice versa) and decent GPU acceleration may be a
| long time off with the standard driver quality Android
| vendors deliver.
| rektide wrote:
| You can run Chrome, which has a virtual machine in it. Maybe
| not the same kind of virtual machine that you're talking
| about, but this is the kind of virtual machine that Apple has
| banned: any kind of code that isn't statically compiled, that
| isn't immediately readable. This is why Chrome (actual, not
| the thin cosmetic shell over Safari WebView available now)
| can't ran on iOS.
|
| Conversely, I have no respect at all for the m-f a-h at
| Google who have, in MV3, pulled an Apple and banned anything
| but statically compiled code in WebExtensions. Google is
| doing the worst thing Apple did, but to the web. And I
| absolutely hate it. Hate it hate it hate it hate it.
| Abominable way to hurt the web.
| https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139
| gregsadetsky wrote:
| Discussed yesterday -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866431
| gnabgib wrote:
| A three year old article was discussed yesterday (from the
| Washington Post, 2020 - referenced in this article) - there
| were even comments in thread about the article being dated
| (perhaps OP used the wrong URL). This is the result of 11th
| circuit appeal of that 2020 judgement (which upholds it),
| opened in 2021 and closed.. yesterday.
|
| Maybe the Bloomberg Law article is a bit clearer ["Apple Fails
| to Fully Reboot iOS Simulator Copyright
| Case"](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/apple-fails-to-
| revive-c...)
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