trying to make a near 100% foss build lol

  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
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    1 year ago

    There is no problem connecting an iPhone to a PC. Generally, Apple requires iTunes to interact with the device, as they wish to restrict and monitor the way you interact with the device. There used to be a FOSS plugin that worked with Apple on Linux, but it was not stable when I was fighting with it back on the iPhone 5.

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    You don’t even need to do that. You can side-load iOS compatible apps through the web browser. The device needs to either be in developer mode or provisioned with a configuration profile for the app (or app signing key) in question, iirc.

    It’s quite a pointless effort, though - using an open source licence and having the source code publicly available is the best you should really try to get for iOS apps. But I’m guessing this is just a theoretical thought experiment.

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    I believe the iPhone uses a basic read-only protocol to access media. (MTP?) You can use iTunes to add files to the iPhone but that’s not FOSS. I personally use Photosync, you might like that for wireless photo transfers.