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Re:Apple’s China Problem by archvile on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:16PM (#14275060)
How would iOS get pirated when the only way to install it is by using a certificate that only Apple holds? If it was easy enough to reverse engineer iOS and remove that install requirement, I'm sure it would have been done by now.
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Re:Apple’s China Problem by zeusk on Friday May 05, 2017 @02:05PM (#14275501)
not really, and it's been done (not entirely successfully though).

https://twitter.com/CotullaCode/status/352176812194922496

I worked with Cotulla in the HD2 community during the htc-linux days and we had iOS 5.x booting on the device up till springboard, there were definitely issues but not "impossible".

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Re:Apple’s China Problem by linkregister on Friday May 05, 2017 @01:56PM (#14275423)
Seriously? There is a thriving jailbreak scene for iOS. It doesn't sound insurmountable at all. I think the only reason there's no iOS analogue to the Hackintosh is because nobody has bothered.
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