Surely Apple provides a way of doing this without jailbreaking." They do. That implies that they got their app onto their iPhone for testing without the AppStore. That implies the makers of the apps tested them as they were making them. Then my third main thought occurred to me, "These apps in the AppStore don't just appear there. Just make an APT repository for the WINE app, and they do the equivalent of adding your PPA, and they tell it to install! Furthermore, Cydia says the packages actually follow Debian format: So I would think that you wouldn't even need to go through Cydia to get a WINE app onto a jailbroken iPhone. You open source people are going to love this: the jailbroken iPhone crowd has set up repositories and APT stuff for installing apps onto iPhones. Can they get a WINE app through Cydia? What exactly is jailbreaking? Will that let it in somehow?" Wikipedia says that jailbreaking is simply removing all the restrictions from an iPhone. If you could, I think you have to put an SHA1 hash of the app in a plist file somewhere for it to allow you to run the app. Prehaps a non-jailbroken iPhone is not mounted at its root directory. I also wonder if you would see more files and folders. I wonder if this is different with a jailbroken iPhone, and if you could just copy a WINE app over like that. Oddly, it only showed apps that I put on, and not the apps that came with the iPhone. It doesn't let you copy apps off or put a file or a folder where it shows your apps being. Wait - I'd have to admit that I haven't tried it. I think I'll post that as something that might work. I thought, "Maybe people could just mount their iOS device in Linux, and copy over a WINE app into the applications folder. Īnyways, it was quite the trick to mount an iOS device. For some more details on why this is a big deal and what's going on with this mounting business, I wrote this. I found out about some geniuses that figured out how to mount an iPhone or iPod Touch or iPad as a hard drive in Linux. iPhones, iPod Touches, and I'm assuming iPads, do not do "show" themselves as hard drives, are not recognized as such by the kernel (heart of the operating system), and thus cannot be mounted or even formatted. You might have memories of Pre-iPod Touch iPods showing up as a storage disk that could be mounted, viewed in the file browser, and you could copy files on and off and thus use it as an external hard drive. Please note that jailbreaking is no longer illegal. And I'm not necessarily referring to jailbreaking, though that is one method. There are ways of getting apps into iOS other than the app store. The reason why I've been gone from the forums for the last few days is because I've been researching this.
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