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Awesome! I hope Apple will not get the lawyers out for this project (especially for licensing issues)... but this is promising for the future!

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It should be usable in Asahi Linux on Mac hardware.

Not a practical suggestion, but would it be feasible to run xtool on jailbroken iOS devices? (I mean, those are definitely Apple-branded!)

maximal malicious compliance!

Once Asahi Linux support matures (e.g. Thunderbolt external storage for software RAID) Mac Mini hardware with Linux for CI/CD will be competitive on price/performance/watt.

If Apple would re-enable Linux VMs on iPad/iPhone, everyone could be happy. Thankfully Google is now shipping a full pKVM Linux VM ("Terminal") on Pixel phones, including USB-c docking to external keyboard and mouse. Hopefully that "inspires" Apple to restore the Linux VM functionality they removed three years ago. Then iPhone Pro + USB-c dock = Linux desktop for iOS app development, buying time for Apple to converge iOS/macOS/visionOS in +++ years.

Okay, but what if

what if we run it on Android on an iPhone [0]

[0]: e.g. https://projectsandcastle.org/

Wish Corellium could work with Asahi to upstream Apple device support to mainline Linux.

I doubt it, as it's being announced on Swift.org.

In a forum post – it’s not an official announcement. But since it hasn’t been taken down yet I guess there is hope?

Likely, Apple won’t have any desire to take it down, as you still need to go through the App Store approval process, to sell on the App Store (and they still get their vig).

But they also probably won’t go out of their way to support it. It could break, down the road.

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