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Ready this week almost too ambitious Kickstarter project?
Meet iEmu, a new project from one of the early hackers of the iPhone. Goal? To get the iOS and works in an emulated State on Linux, Windows, Mac and Android.
In a building on top of QEMU is an open source project manager Chris Wade (who had a role in some of the early exploits of jailbreak iPhone) hopes to fully emulate the Samsung S5L8930 (A4) chipset used in iPhone 4 and first generation iPad.
This should be easy enough, right? I want to say that your computer can play SNES games and arcade games! This should be a breeze!
Yes No. Even after they figured out how to emulate a CPU (which, in accordance with this page, they've done), they still need to hack together an emulated GPU support, USB controller, Multitouch controller, memory, audio system and all secondary components (Bluetooth chip, GPS, compass, etc) and once they've got all the hardware stuff covers? Then they get to find out how to get all this stuff to download. I'd love to see all of this will happen to call it a massive project will be an understatement.
"But wait!"you're talking about. "Apple already provide their own iOS emulator?"
Like, but with some pretty big footnotes. First of all, Apple is Mac only solution. The second and not so easy to explain in a nutshell: Apple on iOS system test is a simulation, emulation. Although it looks like iOS and iOS acts like, Apple's Simulator isn't actually using a version of virtualized iOS. This is a trivial difference to 99.9% of the world (and even the very vast majority of developers iOS) — but for tiny piece people (safety engineers, digging for the deficiencies of the system, for example), a massive difference.
Now, for the ever important question: why? Because they (hopefully they) can. In addition, the objectives, get up "most of the iPad/iPhone apps" and works on iOS devices allows true iOS emulation on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS device (why device iOS? think virtual machines), and allows security engineers to give due consideration to iOS malware without potentially destroying their actual device. Plus reverse engineering, participation in theory leads to documentation on all aspects of the iPhone, that no one outside of Apple really understands.
Chris trying to raise $ 20 k for this project, which will cover his living expenses for 3 + months, he says, to cover the costs of hosting and production/delivery of the Kickstarter awards. If you're down throw a few greenbacks in the mission, you can find the project here, but it is known to Kickstarter: these guys have one hell of a mountain to climb. If they were able to get things up and load in a reasonable period of time, don't expect Android devices for chewin' through tons of iOS-native apps and games soon — there is still question as hardware emulation crazy computationally expensive to deal with.
And it doesn't mention what Apple legal thinking all this ...
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