Comment by ulrikrasmussen
5 hours ago
Plenty of useful apps != general purpose computing capabilities.
You are not allowed to run computations that have not been approved by Apple if you are using an iPhone. Yes, the hardware is powerful, but it is cryptographically locked down. It is physically local, but the control of the hardware is entirely non-local and 100% owned by Apple.
unless you're using an API that requires an entitlement, you can still get an apple developer account and sign whatever code you want and run it on your devices.
So if they don't give you an apple dev account, or close yours, you can't.
Case in point.
Did you just move the goalposts from “you can’t run arbitrary code today” to “hypothetically, in the future, Apple could prevent running arbitrary code”?
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