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hyrons is offline hyrons
2010-03-09 , 10:02
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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!!!
 
berty is offline berty
2010-03-09 , 10:07
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Doubt that can be done, would be good though!
 
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2010-03-09 , 10:32
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It's not impossible, just highly highly improbably
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2010-03-09 , 12:00
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Originally Posted by hyrons View Post
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!!!
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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2010-03-09 , 12:48
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Originally Posted by hyrons View Post
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!!!
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.
 
TheThane is offline TheThane
2010-03-09 , 14:30
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Originally Posted by cashclientel View Post
It's not impossible, just highly highly improbably
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.
 
soeiro is offline soeiro
2010-03-09 , 14:43
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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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quipper8 is offline quipper8
2010-03-09 , 14:57
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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.
 
ofels is offline ofels
2010-03-10 , 10:18
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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:

App Store Only: Section 7.2 makes it clear that any applications developed using Apple's SDK may only be publicly distributed through the App Store, and that Apple can reject an app for any reason, even if it meets all the formal requirements disclosed by Apple. So if you use the SDK and your app is rejected by Apple, you're prohibited from distributing it through competing app stores like Cydia or Rock Your Phone.

Ban on Reverse Engineering: Section 2.6 prohibits any reverse engineering (including the kinds of reverse engineering for interoperability that courts have recognized as a fair use under copyright law), as well as anything that would "enable others" to reverse engineer, the SDK or iPhone OS.
So here is the basic answer to the question of porting apps.
 
inzimam is offline inzimam
2010-03-10 , 10:24
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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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