{"id":230471,"date":"2024-06-10T15:33:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/apple-blocks-utm-se-pc-emulator-from-app-stores-says-its-not-a-retro-console\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:17:27","slug":"apple-blocks-utm-se-pc-emulator-from-app-stores-says-its-not-a-retro-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/apple-blocks-utm-se-pc-emulator-from-app-stores-says-its-not-a-retro-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple blocks UTM SE PC emulator from app stores, says it&#8217;s not a retro console"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>\u201cHello, I\u2019m a Mac,\u201d says Justin Long. \u201cAnd I\u2019m a PC,\u201d responds John Hodgman. That\u2019s how the famous Apple ad went, but there is something that the ad didn\u2019t say \u2013 the \u201cPC is not a console\u201d. This is why the UTM SE app was blocked by the Apple App Store Review Board.<\/p>\n<p>UTM is an app that allows you to run virtual machines on iOS \u2013 it supports Windows, Linux and other OSes with emulation of x86-64, ARM64 and RISC-V processors. It supports <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Just-in-time_compilation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JIT<\/a>, which Apple frowns upon, so the team submitted the UTM SE version \u2013 \u201cslow edition\u201d with no JIT.<\/p>\n<p>Apple recently started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/emulators_seem_to_now_be_allowed_on_the_apple_app_store_but_with_some_caveats-news-62337.php\">allowing emulators on the App Store<\/a> after over a decade of blocking such software. However, it only allowed emulators for retro consoles. And a PC is not a console, despite a wealth of old DOS and Windows games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-row clearfix\">&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/24\/06\/utm-se-blocked\/popup\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UTM\u2019s statement\" width=\"326\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/06\/utm-se-blocked\/popup\/-326\/gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/24\/06\/utm-se-blocked\/popup\/-1200\/gsmarena_002.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the UTM app\" width=\"326\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/06\/utm-se-blocked\/popup\/-326\/gsmarena_002.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/><span><strong>UTM\u2019s statement \u2022 the UTM app<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a tweet announcing this development, the UTM team writes that the SE version is a \u201csubpar experience and isn\u2019t worth fighting for\u201d (because it was slow without JIT). So, unless Apple changes its mind \u2013 or has its mind changed for it \u2013 this is the end of the road for UTM SE.<\/p>\n<p>This is because Apple can not only block the app from its own app store, it can also refuse to allow its distribution through third-party app stores.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering how UTM even worked in the first place, the answer is sideloading (for iOS 11-13, which requires a $99\/year developer account) or jailbreaking (iOS 14). The hope with SE was that it would give users an easy to install version, but that isn\u2019t happening (at least not for now).<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission was already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/the_european_commission_is_not_happy_with_apples_new_app_store_rules_and_fees-news-62145.php\">looking into<\/a> Apple\u2019s revised app store rules and whether they comply with the Digital Markets Act, this will add another wrinkle into the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UTMapp\/status\/1799647652134654045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_blocks_utm_se_pc_emulator_from_app_stores_says_its_not_a_retro_console-news-63212.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u201cHello, I\u2019m a Mac,\u201d says Justin Long. \u201cAnd I\u2019m a PC,\u201d responds John Hodgman. That\u2019s how the famous Apple ad went, but there is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}