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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by newnewpdro on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:28PM (#21216402)
Yeah, because you can just install Android on the iPhone you already possess.
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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by techntoke on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:17PM (#21218725)
No, but a comparable unlocked phone is $300.
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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by saagarjha on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:57PM (#21219092)
Not all that relevant, but with the new BootROM exploit you may be able to do this at some point.
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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by Wowfunhappy on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:38PM (#21219445)
I expect that won't happen. Maybe as a proof of concept, but not as something anyone would ever want to use daily.

Documentation on iPhone hardware is basically nonexistent. Someone would need to reverse engineer it all and write drivers from scratch.

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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by saagarjha on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:00PM (#21219621)
It’s happened before, though of course it’d be much harder today. Interestingly, it seems like Apple keeps around a Linux devicetree for their processors, so it’s certainly not impossible…
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Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store by Wowfunhappy on Thursday October 10, 2019 @08:38PM (#21220564)
It never got past the proof of concept stage last time. And that was when there was more interest in Jailbreaking than there is today.
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