Re: What if somebody just bought an iPhone?

On May 17, 2024 at 9:31:40 PM EDT, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2024-05-17 22:41:19 +0000, Tyrone said:

On May 17, 2024 at 5:33:24 PM EDT, "Andrew" <andrew@spam.net> wrote:

 
Please see the sig for my summary of the emulators that I had tested.

 
I did. Unless you are really desperate to run Android apps on your Windows PC,
I don't see the point in any of them.  You can just buy an Android
phone/tablet and not have to worry about emulation issues (and you listed MANY
issues).
 
Same goes for iPhones and iPads. If you want to run iOS software, then just
get an iOS device. Easy. No compatibility issues.

 
Newer Mac computers can easily run iOS / iPadOS apps, but the developer
does have to specifically allow it on the app's App Store settings.

True, but has nothing to do with wanting an "iOS emulator" running on an
Android phone. I use a couple iPad apps on this MacBook Pro.  They run fine.

The emulators I have used were always for hardware that is no longer
available. Those were actually uselful. When the hardware is readily
available, I see no point in fussing with emulators.

 
Depends on what you wanting to do. For example, if you are a Mac user,
but need to occasionally use a Windows app, then it may make more sense
to use something like VMWare Fusion (which is free for personal use) to
emulate / virtualise a Windows PC rather than buying a real computer to
take up extra desk space and sitting idle most of the time. Running the
two OSes on the same computer can also make it much easier to share
files and copy-paste data between them.

I also do that every day. I have Windows 11 Arm in VMWare Fusion on this
MacBook Pro. It also runs fine. The Windows 11 license was $30. I DLed the
Windows 11 Arm DVD image directly from MS. VMWare Fusion makes this very easy
to do.

Because I did not want yet another Intel-based jet engine space heater on my
desk. I am done with Intel shit.