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A new gaming app is showing what iPhone life could be like without a walled garden around it, if only Apple eased more of its rules. But first...

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Emulating a freer life

In recent weeks, I’ve been having a blast with Delta, a new app that enables users to play retro video games from their iPhone. With Delta, I can load up classic Nintendo games like Super Mario World and even GoldenEye 007 as if I was back on a couch in the 1990s, getting mozzarella stick grease all over my console controllers.

Services of this kind, called emulators, have long existed on computers, but until recently Apple Inc. barred them on its mobile iOS platform. Then, abruptly last month, Apple announced it would end the ban and permit retro emulators on its App Store. Delta launched on the iPhone about two weeks later.

Articles by Bloomberg