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Comment by sanid

19 hours ago

This is going to be fun. There are already replica phones for the flagship phones that are running a shitty android version that has been customized to look like iOS. People need to tripple check now when buying older used iPhone models.

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gruez  18 hours ago

>Does not work (yet):

>App Store content and Apple ID sign-in (no Secure Enclave; FairPlay daemon exits)

That seems like a huge roadblock, even if were able to resolve all the driver/OS issues.

  • driverdan  11 hours ago

    Sounds like a huge win to me. Neither of those should be required. Replace Apple's walled garden with open login and open stores.

  • mshish  18 hours ago

    I imagine official support for 3rd party app stores might open up some options for easily installing apps. However, that might require the store adding support for this type of iOS install or a newer version of iOS with 3rd party app store support.

    • gruez  18 hours ago

      >I imagine official support for 3rd party app stores might open up some options for easily installing apps

      Given you own the OS, that's not an issue. You can make it pre-jailbroken and load whatever third party app store if you want. The bigger issue is that no app store = no "normie" apps like uber or google maps. I suspect most of the stock apps won't work either because they enforce device attestation on the backend endpoints, so it'll be miserable to use. Note in the maps screenshot, there's nothing behind the modal. It's just blank, suggesting it can't load the map tiles. You'd be better off using an android skinned as ios (possibly vibedcoded) than using this mess.

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    • numpad0  13 hours ago

      Someone is going to set up an unofficial app store for this and fill it with pirated and malware-ridden apps. Then some companies will be convinced into releasing .ipsw files for "debug and research" purposes and starts taking subscription through those installs. Then Apple will lose choices but to support randomly downloaded .ipsw files on regular iOS devices to avoid becoming the lesser option against those, and we could slowly crawl back to the code freedom we had in 2006. Or this gets DMCA'd in 3 hours and nothing will come of it.

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  • fennecbutt  13 hours ago

    I mean in theory Apple are a company of humans using services offered by other humans to make hardware used by other humans.

    What I mean by that is if someone can create a near perfect replica with all the software keys needed and then clone a known serial number or range of serial numbers, when it comes to apple pushing out an OS update, how are they to know which the real devices are and which aren't?

    • rickdeckard  1 hour ago

      > "[..] if someone can create a near perfect replica with all the software keys needed and then clone a known serial number or range of serial numbers [..]"

      I think you would need to hack and emulate the whole security enclave, which contains quite a bit of factory-provisioned data IIRC.