Comments on: Why can’t my Mac run iPhone apps?

By: Jesper Bylund

Jesper Bylund — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:22:15 +0000

A valid point for developers, but not for end users. The SDK for iOS comes with a emulator that does run on Mac’s and has the problems that you pointed out though, so I still can’t find a reason why end users shouldn’t be able to use them natively on OS X.

By: whizkid515

whizkid515 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:37:39 +0000

The iPhone uses a different processor (ARM-based) than a Mac would (either PowerPC or x86/Intel), so you’d have to emulate the ARM platform on a Mac in order for this to be possible. This would cause a huge speed decrease, and would not be very helpful for developers to get a realistic idea of how the app would run on an actual iPhone (i.e. at the iPhone’s native speed).

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By: Jesper Bylund

Jesper Bylund — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:31:09 +0000

I’d like to think it makes sense. But for some reason Apple hasen’t even said they’re working on it.
Though to be fair, iPhone apps need an iPhone kernel to run.. But since it works in the SDK they could make it work in OS X
in no time at all.

Thanks for the comment!

By: Klink

Klink — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:48:51 +0000

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for all day! It makes as much sense as NO picture texting till recently. I should be able to run my apps from my ITUNES!!!!!!!!!

By: Petter

Petter — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:10:35 +0000

I think you’re on something here. I think widgets was a start, and there’s more coming. I’m sure there’s a mod but it’d sure hell be nice if you could download directly! The thing is the apps are made for the resolution 480×320 no more, no less, they’d have to be run in a window that big. But how hard is that? We’ll soon see!