Ah, I see, you can trick your OS into allowing you to do so; sorry, still not impressed. Nor will not jailbreaking make the use of controllers and such any easier. And seriously, having to change the date every time you want to use an emulator…?! NOT happening.
The option to pay more for the privilege of having more silly restrictions placed on you may satisfy YOU. I’ll pass.
I’m not sure what you’re referring to, but there’s no trickery required thanks to Enterprise Developer Profiles which also allow corporate BYOD scenarios.
You can literally install alternative app stores on your phone and download all kinds of apps that would never be allowed in Apple’s App Store. No jailbreak required and it’s all working within Apple’s frameworks.
Here’s two popular ones:
Oh, so emulator writers are now “Enterprise software developers”, eh?
Yes, “trick”.
In the two examples above, the applications are signed by the store that distributes the applications. If you don’t want to use the alternate storefront approach there’s nothing stopping you from sideloading individual ipa files directly from the device itself. Again, no jailbreak required. The only real reason to jailbreak these days is if you have a desire to change low level functionality on the system, like replacing or modifying system components (or otherwise breaking the app sandbox).
Anyway you’ve stated repeatedly that iOS doesn’t allow you to run emulators without jailbreak or weird hacks, and this is patently false. (This was definitely the case several years ago, but not so much now.)
seems like anytime the phone makers other than apple put out some great feature, Apple will copy it a few years later. And anytime Apple put out some terrible feature, the rest of the field will copy that.
“oh you poor Apple people, slumming it without wireless charging…” ok well now they have it.
“oh you poor Apple people, they took your headphone jack away…” ok well now the Pixel 2 and other new phones also have no headphone jack.
I used to enjoy the Apple bashing and Android hyping game but by now I’ve learned that anything I might point out which Apple is doing terribly will eventually become terrible for all of us, and anything that is a great feature on an android will eventually make it’s way onto Apple’s products. So these days I don’t bother getting on any high horses, I just buy the stockest android device I can find because that way I’ll most likely get the best features the soonest and avoid the crappy user unfriendly design choices the latest, but there’s no upside to trying to pretend android is better when all the good stuff is copied and it constantly imports bad stuff.
I have a 2011 “firesale” HP Touchpad running Android 7 Nougat. It’s not amazing - but it’s great for a media screen for the kids.
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