The users we grew up with MS-DOS, Windows 3.11, the Netscape and Mosaic browser and that we were using modems (mine was 14.400 bps) to connect to the internet, we always like to remember, even sporadically, that time. Thanks to the iDOS application for iOS, we could use MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 on our iPhone or iPad as long as we had a copy, in addition to installing games based on both systems.
And I say we could, because Apple, as the developer had announced, removed the app from the App Store. According to Chaoj Li, creator of this application, Apple claims that "you cannot install or run executable code that changes the characteristics or functionality of an application."
At the beginning of July, this developer informed his clients of the impending demise of iOS 2 at the end of July, because the application skips the guideline 2.5.2 of the App Store. This guideline states that:
Applications must be autonomous in their packages and cannot read or write data outside the designated container area, nor can they download, install, or execute code that introduces or changes features or functionality of the application, including other applications.
The last function added to the application and that has been the main reason for the expulsion of the application from the App Store, allows you to import files. Apple invited Chaoj Li to remove this function, however, he replied that he would not do so because it would betray the customers who had trusted this application for that function. This update also offered mouse and keyboard support. This application was priced at 5,49 euros in the App Store.
For these types of applications, which do no harm to anyone, is when the need arises for Apple to allow once and for all, install applications from sources other than the App Store. Although at first it may be an isolated case, over the years, many are the applications that have been removed from the App Store by strict guidelines behind the Apple application store.
