If the company’s emulator worked like Corel’s Parallels Desktop, arriving on a user’s machine with nothing save its own code while having the ability to run a permissibly downloaded copy of iOS - which iTunes and macOS routinely do for USB updates of devices using PCs and Macs - Apple probably still wouldn’t be happy, but might have greater trouble shutting Corellium down.)

(* = It should be noted that the story might be somewhat different if Corellium’s product was solely an emulator without any redistribution of iOS code. All it has to do is file a lawsuit to shut down unwanted activities, then win it - either by making the small company give up, or advancing through trial and rebutting a likely claim of fair use. In a newly filed lawsuit, Apple is characterizing Corellium’s actions as a “straightforward case of infringement of highly valuable copyrighted works.” If you’re not a lawyer, this means that Apple is accusing Corellium of directly copying iOS and its apps so that they can be accessed by “anyone with a web browser.” And if you are a lawyer, there’s little question that Apple is at least superficially* correct: Copyright law technically lets the company control every iOS release it distributes, precluding copying and various impermissible uses. Beyond claiming to have “the first and only platform to offer iOS, Android, and Linux virtualization on ARM,” locally and in the cloud, Corellium says that it’s emulating iOS GPUs and enabling developers to access Apple’s kernel for “debugging” purposes. Its website brazenly focuses on a Mac emulating an iPhone 6 with iOS 11, and its Twitter account shows virtual iPhone XR and iPhone XS devices running jailbroken versions of iOS 13, alongside retweets of praise from hackers. With the exception of Hackintoshes, PCs that are imperfectly and tenuously hacked to run macOS, Apple doesn’t abide the use of its operating systems on machines that weren’t specifically built to run them.Ī small Florida company called Corellium either didn’t get the memo or doesn’t care. Years ago, it shut down efforts to replicate the iPod’s interface on computers, and apart from AirPlay screen mirroring, there hasn’t been a way to bring the iPhone’s or iPad’s full interface onto a computer screen for even indirect user manipulation. If you’ve been following Apple for a while, you probably already know that the company doesn’t like emulators - at least, most of them. Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10.

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