porting iphone apps to n900
 

Anyone know how hard it is to port iphone apps? a iphone emulator would be the key i think, just looking at the iphone apps sore makes me want one but with sutch a crappy camera no way, what were apple thinking!!!

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Doubt that can be done, would be good though!

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It's not impossible, just highly highly improbably

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i think that apple will kill us with fire if someone here succedes to emulate the iphone os.

but seriously, here are poor-none motivation to try a long and difficult task like creating and emulator

AFAIK

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From a technical point of view iPhone apps are written in the ObjectC language which Apple has tightly bound to the OS.
So you would have to rewrite the code from scratch using the available APIs in Qt or Gtk++/Hildon.

Besides that lots of such applications are commercial with copyrights being held by their respective producers.

An iphone emulator would definitely violate Apples patents and copyrights unless Apple itself grants it which I consider to be highly unpropable judging Apples current policy.

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Yes, also boot iphone os on n900 It's not impossible but highly highly highly hard and improbably without source.

The only way is iPhone app sdk source -> Qt source Converter.

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Well, if you could get hold of the source code you could try to port it to the N900. I'm sure there is a way to port some Objective-C compiler to the N900. Alas, with easy-debian you could even try to use LLVM (it has Objective-C front end).

The most troublesome work would be to implement the iPhone OS API calls.

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there is cocotron which is an objective C compiler for linux or windows, but you would still need to translate the iphone API calls to meego Qt.

Not impossible, but a huge undertaking and not likely to happen.

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May I just point you to the relevant parts of the Apple iPhone License agreement as published by the EFF lately:

So here is the basic answer to the question of porting apps.

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Hasn't Palm just said they can Port iphone apps to the Palm Pre in only a few days?

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No thanks - I don't want trillions of crap applications drowning the good quality apps.

Leave them for people who get amused for 30 seconds and never use them after that.

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looks like ofels works for the big apple!! as if patents are going to stop someone with talent if they choose to. :D

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No, I don't. Your conclusion is completely wrong.
And the point is not about patents but copyrights and license agreements. A company providing stuff to the Appstore owns the copyrights for it and Apple owns the rights to have it exclusively for the iPhone unless some other agreement is made.
Porting apps without Apples and the producers permission violates a bunch of laws, though it is the business of those talented to go through the expensive fight with the respective companies (including Apple).
Plus it sheds a rather bad light on the Maemo community if "stealing" ideas and intellectual property (from the perspective of the stakeholders) is an accepted way to increase the number of applications for Maemo.

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Making a program that emulates the macOS is not illegal. So could be provided. People who then use it to play illegal downloaded content is.

Why else would there be a snes en gameboy emulator?

Even better is that when a third party programmer makes a emulator apple cant do anything about it to nokia. Because its not their fault.

This would be a great thing! not for all the crap apps we have. but to anoy apple :)

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"They can" does not necessarily mean "they do". Also there might be different license agreements to be signed with Apple and looking at Rovio with their Angry Birds being available for several platforms they might have done that.