{"id":48998,"date":"2025-08-21T14:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48998"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:36:37","slug":"provenance-in-app-review-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/21\/provenance-in-app-review-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Provenance in App Review Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor M. Reyes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On July 31st, 2025, the Provenance X (formerly Twitter) account posted a direct plea to the community:<\/p>

“I’ve been on the phone with App Store review support 5 times now about my TestFlights not being reviewed. The longest of which was over 42 days!”<\/p><\/blockquote>

Despite repeated calls and assurances that the request would be escalated, the silence continues. No review. No rejection. Just stagnation.<\/p>

And the update stuck in limbo? One of Provenance’s most anticipated yet — introducing experimental, jitless support for Dreamcast, GameCube, and Wii<\/strong> via non-JIT cores. <\/p>

[…]<\/p>

“I also received a thinly veiled threat of; ‘I can either submit this to the review team or deny support.’”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

As a reminder, the current App Review guidelines specifically allow emulation of retro games so long as there is no JIT.<\/p>\n\n

Via Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The more I read about Apple and emulators, the more I think the company only allowed them to piss off AltStore.<\/p>\n

The amount of dicking around Apple’s done with a whole host of emulators now is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I get all the arguments against JIT on iPhone. But it is quite funny that I can run perfect Dreamcast on a $150 Chinese Android handheld, and yet it runs like crap on an iPhone 16 Pro. (I’m told Dreamcast emulation is stable on an M4<\/em> iPad.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n