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).
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).