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The iPhone and iPad aren[he]#039[/he]t by any means open source, but they[he]#039[/he]re popular devices. Many people who own an iOS device also happen to use a lot of open source, including Linux. Users of Windows and macOS can communicate with an iOS device by using software provided by Apple, but Apple doesn[he]#039[/he]t support Linux users. Open source programmers came to the rescue back in 2007 (just a year after the iPhone[he]#039[/he]s release) with Libimobiledevice (then called libiphone), a cross-platform solution for communicating with iOS.

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