Running iPhone or iPad apps on the PC or Mac

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Solution 1

The iPhone SDK provides a simulator, but I guess that it requires you to have the source of the application you want to run. You couldn't run any binaries taken from the web.

For more info on the official dev kit: http://developer.apple.com/iphone

Solution 2

The iPhone and iPad use ARM, PCs and Macs use x86. Without an emulator or a port you cannot run those apps at all.

Solution 3

It actually is possible, but requires the author of the application to bundle the App specifically for you to use in the iPhone Simulator. (You'd need to have the iPhone SDK installed as well, which requires an ADC membership.) I doubt you'd get authors to bundle their apps for use with the simulator for non-beta-testing or screencasting purposes. See Simulator Exchange for more info.

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GeekAbhiGeek

I started with Apple Basic and 6502 machine code and Assembly, then went onto Fortran, Pascal, C, Lisp (Scheme), microcode, Perl, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Objective-C. Originally, I was going to go with an Atari... but it was a big expense for my family... and after months of me nagging, my dad agreed to buy an Apple ][. At that time, the Pineapple was also available. The few months in childhood seem to last forever. A few months nowadays seem to pass like days. Those days, a computer had 16kb or 48kb of RAM. Today, the computer has 16GB. So it is in fact a million times. If you know what D5 AA 96 means, we belong to the same era.

Updated on September 17, 2022