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It's not about security. Apple doesn't want to open on external applications, including the one run in VM/emulators, because it wants every software to pass from the AppStore. Not because security, but for the fee it has on app store purchases.

If it opens to having VM, you could just run another OS in a VM (Windows, for example) and install normal software on it (like the desktop version of most programs) and not pay the AppStore fee.

It's only a commercial reason, not a security one.

>>alerig+(OP)
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/6/1.html

> For more than 90 percent of the billings and sales facilitated by the App Store ecosystem, developers did not pay any commission to Apple.

Would the remaining 10 percent of App Store sales have meaningful competition from a CLI (no GUI) terminal VM that enables development workflows on iPad?

>>transp+C
> developers did not pay any commission to Apple

That's certainly a take. The developer fee is $99 a year, that HAS to be paid to put something on the App Store.

Sure they are not getting commision on the download, but they ARE getting their pound of flesh from the developer fee.

>>AJRF+f4
An estimated 3M iOS developers would generate $300M developer fee revenue.

App store revenue is around $100B, or 300X estimated developer fees.

>>transp+ae
Still, "developers did not pay any commission to Apple" is wrong.

>>palata+RD
If the full sentence is referencing sales commission, then the fixed developer fee would not qualify, since it's not a percentage of revenue, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sales-c...

  Sales commission is the percentage of the value of a sale that a sales associate or sales representative may earn.