Browsers with engines other than the WebKit, e.g. native Firefox with the Gecko.
The FOSS community will gain momentum.
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HanDman@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Once this is implemented, what sort of aops are people hoping to see available?
lnxtx@feddit.nl 5 months ago
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 months ago
They should allow gecko browsers in the apple store too, otherwise Mozilla won’t bother making it for only a few users.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I’ve definitely noticed a demand for emulators. Apple does not permit those on their app store.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Crazy that they’re still not allowed, I remember using a great gameboy emulator on a jailbroken iPod touch in like 2010
DdCno1@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I bought my first Android phone in late 2010. Its 600 MHz single-core CPU just barely ran a GBA emulator at playable speeds. The screen wasn’t multitouch and a bug in the operating system (fixed about a year or two later by the manufacturer) meant that any time the screen was being touched, CPU load would shoot up to 100% and everything slowed down to a crawl, which meant I could only play turn-based titles. That’s how I discovered Advance Wars.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 months ago
On a related note I was recently incredibly impressed to see how well Dolphin Emulator runs GameCube and Wii games on Android, though even fully working touch controls aren’t really viable for anything other than glorious turn-based combat!
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 5 months ago
We’ll probably see shitloads of spyware and other questionable apps.
Zworf@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I doubt it. Apple will make the process scary enough that users won’t get tricked into this.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 5 months ago
Depends on how open the EU will force them to be.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 months ago
All sorts of FOSS projects that understandably can’t be bothered dealing with Apple’s absurd App Store policies.
Zworf@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Yes, or paying the $100 fee for a free FOSS app, or publishing an app that is too ‘spicy’ like an app for fetlife, or ‘possibly embarassing’ like emulators that can be used to play pirated content. There’s only positives here IMO.