Re:Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
by segmondy on Thursday August 15, 2019 @09:37PM
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What if they bought a phone for every VM they offer? So let's say they offer 5000 VMs, they buy 5000 equivalent phones. Do you think they will still have a chance?
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Re:Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
by gjsman-1000 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @09:41PM
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Probably not. That would be much better legal footing, but still has problems.
The iOS copy isn't running on the actual iPhone, which is a massive violation of the iOS ToS which says that iOS can only run on an Apple-branded device.
There is also legal precedent upholding this in Apple vs Psystar (2007), in which a company claimed "fair use" when selling their own "hackintoshes" and a UEFI product which made building "hackintoshes" easier.
How did Psystar do? They lost. Terribly. And they had a surprisingly robust legal team, making it all the way to the point to appealing to the Supreme Court (the SCOTUS denied the request).
Re:Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
by gjsman-1000 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @09:47PM
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What WOULD WORK is buy 5000 iPhones and doing passthrough. In this setup, you have 5000 iPhones, all running iOS, and the screen is recorded with touch-inputs replicated on the real iPhone. Even if they were jailbroken, the odds of Apple winning would be way, way lower than this case.
Or, well, enter a legal contract with Apple.
Re:Apple files lawsuit against Corellium for iOS emulation
by ascagnel_ on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:55AM
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I don't know if the Aereo decision would come into play here -- they were declared in default, even though each user would "rent" their own unique antenna.
There's also a bunch of details to that case that may make that decision irrelevant here.