> For example, I don't see side loaded NES emulators being allowed to have a JIT.
Why not? If third-party browsers are allowed to have a JIT, why couldn't an emulator?
Why not? If third-party browsers are allowed to have a JIT, why couldn't an emulator?
Little emulators for NES and Sega Genesis are not going to meet those barriers and Apple will have a pretty easy time excluding them under the security provision.
Dev environments like VS Code will be more interesting. I suspect Apple will choose to build a VM layer to execute complied code inside an even deeper sandbox rather than allowing execution directly inside the iOS layer, thereby severely limiting what a binary complied on device is able to interact with. This would almost certainly be hidden behind an entitlement that Apple will be try to be allowed to gatekeep under the DMA requirement to maintain platform security.
Surely Apple being wealthier and selling higher priced phones, with even more powerful SoCs can definitely offer similar security functionality for non-IOS appstores. The reason they aren't is they want to push the security boogieman scaremongering to defend their monopoly.