I don’t expect you’re going to find a lot of kids trawling the Internet to find an old version of Leisure Suit Larry to install. While you might be able to argue that it provides the opportunity to load objectionable content outside of the purview of the App Store…we’re talking DOS here, people. As the developer points out, iDOS runs code inside an emulation environment within the app sandbox, meaning that it’s not really a security risk.

This is a damn shame and points, once again, to the flaws in Apple’s one-size-fits-all rulemaking. Existing users should still be able to download this app in your purchased history, however, if someday you can’t and the appstore says “removed by developer”, it’s definitely not my doing. That would be a betrayal to all the users that have purchased this app specifically for those features. The bottom line is that I can not bring myself to cut the critical functionalities of iDOS2 in order to be compliant with Apple’s policy. IDOS emulator may be removed from the App StoreĬhaoji Li, developer of iDOS reports that the app has fallen afoul of Apple’s prohibition on executed code, and will probably be removed from the App Store (though it’s still available as of this writing):

Ios emulator for mac with app store