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0 pointsnmfisher5y ago0 comments

As someone who has been cursing Apple’s abominably obnoxious attitude in this regard for the last few days, this would be music to my ears.

I think it’s never going to happen. It’s the complete antithesis of everything that Apple stands for as a company.

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gtufano5y ago

Beside that reason (true) a mayor roadblock would be that the iOS simulator (the simulated debug device running alongside Xcode on the development host) is a simulator, not an emulator: it runs iOS libraries re-compiled for x64 using the macOS kernel (and the macOS Foundation and Cocoa libraries) support. Porting that on another host OS is probably borderline impossible. Doing something borderline impossible that will increase your support requests just to make people stop using machines you sell is not a good business proposition, I suppose.

DeathArrow5y ago

There are tons of Android emulators running under Windows. So it doesn't seem borderline impossible.

The easiest thing would probably be to virtualize the OS X kernel.

yjftsjthsd-h5y ago

Sure, but do you see Apple ever doing that?

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