This is the computing equivalent of running, say, Windows 95 on your iPad Pro.
Further, it allows users to have a familiar command-line user environment.
But because iSH supports updatingwhich could be seen as essentially an app store within the appApple was upset.
Apps enjoying a bit of outdoor time in Apple’s walled garden.Photo: Ernest H. Mills / Stringer (Getty Images)
According to Section 2.5.2 in the App Store Review Guidelines, Apple forbids apps that download apps.
Such apps must make the source code provided by the program completely viewable and editable by the user.
In other words, Apple doesnt want app updates that occur outside of the App Store.
This is a double standard.
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It also shows developers just what Apple thinks of the iOS platform as a desktop replacement.
Its an interesting and important move in the slow process of potentially making iOS Apples primary operating system.
Whether it happens or not depends on the fate of apps like iSH.
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