Apple approves iDOS 3 following emulator rule change

Apple precocious rejected DOS emulator iDOS 3 from the App Store, but pursuing App Store regularisation changes that look to person cleared the mode for PC emulator apps, iDOS 3 is present disposable for download, developer Chaoji Li announced.

In June, Li said that Apple had rejected iDOS 3 due to the fact that it violated App Store guideline 4.7. At the time, that regularisation is was what allowed for retro crippled console apps to look connected the store, but Apple was only allowing retro crippled console emulators nether the rule. PC emulators weren’t allowed; UTM SE, different PC emulator app, had besides said it was rejected for violating the rule.

But successful July, Apple reversed people and approved UTM SE, and earlier this month, it added the words “PC emulator” to line 4.7, which is seemingly wherefore iDOS 3 has present been allowed connected the App Store. Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

Even though iDOS 3 has been approved, Li is inactive wary of Apple. “It has been a agelong hold for communal consciousness to prevail wrong Apple,” Li wrote successful a blog post. “As overmuch arsenic I privation to celebrate, I inactive can’t assistance being a small spot cautious astir the future. Are we bully from present on?” (Li mightiness besides beryllium wary pursuing Apple’s determination to remove iDOS 2 in 2021.)