Any chance to port iOS ?!
 

Any chance to port iOS4 to Nokia N900,, ?

It will be cool to run iPhone games on N900 ..,,,

I think it is possible as there are many ROMs of the iOS4 crawling the internet

Re: Any chance to port iOS4 ?!
 

No it's not possible..


...and there are at least half a dozen other threads asking similar question dude... it'd be great if you search first and avoid posting repetitive questions.

Take it easy...

Re: Any chance to port iOS4 ?!
 

Wouldn't that be like putting a Ford Pinto engine inside a Ferrari?

Why would you want to do this? If you want to play iPhone games, just drop $99 bucks and go buy a Pinto.... I mean iPhone.

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That was the answer of a great developer:D (i love nitdroid dj_steeve;)) on a very similar question:

"gohan2oo6 (1 month ago)
hey, wont u try making iphone os runing on n900 ? thx

djsteve1030 (1 month ago)
why for one would i want to run crapphone os onm the n900 and 2 its not an open souirce os in the first place, if ya want a unhackable useless heavily restriced os get an iphone no the n900
gohan2oo6"

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thats BLIZZARD couldn of said it better myself

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Hmmm , you're supposed to upgrade your n900 .. why want to downgrade it ?

the iOS requires multi-touch for it to do its business (including games , apps ********) .. so even if you downgraded your phone , it would be useless

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Find a way to emulate the bootrom... possible. You'd also have the most illegal entity besides children hand-rolling you cocaine laced Cuban cigars (if you're in the US, that is).

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I looked into this, based on my previous experience with hackintoshes. Part of the problem is that even though OSX's kernel is open-source, iOS's kernel is not. Also, OSX uses kernel extensions (kexts) to load drivers and stuff, and you could get around that by modifying/adding kexts for your non-Apple hardware. Apple needed kexts so they didn't have to release a different kernel for each and every different Mac they made, with all their various hardware differences. But iPhones are all the same. So are iPod Touches. So are all iPads. Of course, they're not ALL the same, but they have as much identical hardware as they can. This means you can't fiddle with the kext for, say, the GSM radio because it's in the closed-source kernel.

When I realized that the iPhone and iPad have same CPU architecture I also was thinking, "Yay! It's OSx86 all over again!" I mean even if I like it less than Maemo it's still cool. I would have access to more apps, I'd have more choice, I'd have more chances to annoy stupid iPhone fanboys, heck why NOT do it?

But I never even was good at hackintoshing, and the experts say it's not happening.

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lol
awesome response :P

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First thing, not possible as its (i can go as far as saying) the most closed software u can find on this plannet.
Second, why whould u downgrade? N900 is meant for mobile computer like functionality. Y would u replace that with half-assed multitasking, lack of BT etc?

Re: Any chance to port iOS4 ?!
 

get us iOS 4's full source code somehow. We'll consider it after that.

[disclaimer]just kidding, don't send it to me![/disclaimer]

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Out of 10 responses, 6 basically restated the exact same putdowns over and over again. I mean, seriously?

<insert rant about forum post quality>

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No Way this is going to happen

1:N900 No limits
2:iPhone OS Limited

plus how would games work on the n900 with no multi touch!

go buy 1 cause i am :D LOL

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You just made an army of Apple lawyers put down their pens in disappointment... :D

To the thread starter: I'm not exactly a fan of Apple, but officially asking for ripping them off by stealing their OS without paying for it isn't quite considered the most legal thing to do.

As others have said, if you like iOS and the AppStore, what is keeping you from buying an iPhone? You know, the money you would spend that way would be put into further improving their soft- and hardware, and the money you then spend on apps will be turned into new apps you might like.

So buying an iPhone would be a win-win situation, other than the win-lose situation you were proposing. Apple being on the win-side, btw... :p

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That's an utterly perverse idea. To laugh or to cry, i do not know. All i know is that the gadget "scene" (beyond technical department affairs) is disgusting when it has to face the lowest common denominator (mass market). I predict meego.com will become another r3t4rd central within 1-2 years. But that's a whole different story.

Re: Any chance to port iOS4 ?!
 

No, there is no chance. Just get one if you want one.

Re: Any chance to port iOS4 ?!
 

Trashing anything not Linux based is the cool thing to do... it's the best way to show you're not an iSheep or M$ fanboi.

Pfft. Don't act like you don't know.

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Well there were 6 sheeps of a different kind here, just now.

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Baah.

Down with anything Jobs hath created. Up with everything not Jobs created.

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A huge and vocal flock of "mainstream" sheep will always attract the inevitable flock of anti-sheep. They just don't realise that by being anti-sheep they're still letting the herder rule them, indirectly. :p

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That is blasphemous talk, sir.

Because if you're not against Jobs and constantly renounce him publicly, that means you must be sucking on his right teat.

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Left teat. It's the one that lowers the bars the most.

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Yes u can put IOS4 on ur N900...let's all close our eyes and concentrate...done

IOS4 is made for another platform an wil required huge amount of work to be ported.And installing IOS4 on n900 wil be a drawback

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I can't imagine that being too ergonomic, unless you're a leftyt.

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True , last time i said something good about the iPhone .. they almost knocked me down .. with words :eek:

it turns out this is the only way to fit in which is all i ever wanted

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Hahaha... the best ever! :D

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Linux sheep? Open source slaves?

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im enjoying all the replys!
but then i thought....
it would be the ultimate humiliation for apple if we could do this,
i mean next time your arguing about how much better your n900 is compared to a friends iphone or droid device, you could simply say..
'yes but the n900 also runs os4 and froyo if i want it to, can your phone do that?'
and i remember enjoying the guide to get win95 running on my n900, even tho i knew it was a bit pointless and i'd never use it

Re: Any chance to port iOS4 ?!
 

^ Well, the one about Android we can already do.

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No sorry you cant put iOS on the N900 becouse then you would have a working OS for your N900 Device with a full functional Phone Part of Software include this you cant really want .. do you?

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as said previously i would really rather not DOWNGRADE my device to a single tasking FEATUREPHONE os from the MULTITASKING SMARTPHONE os it runs currently

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Would be kind of fun to have iOS running as a virtual machine. I guess it one would first have to make the iphone hw emulation stuff. I mean I enjoy running UAE even though it's a bit of a downgrade from maemo. iOS would be fun just for the hell of it :)

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Well, as fas as i remember, for an Hackintosh (OSX 10.5.X) we need an EFI Bootloader which can be installed on any Intel Machine (AMD also, but Intel is more close onto the orig.) iOS is based upon OSX, so that being sad, we could try to port this bootloader onto our n900.
If i remember correctly, there was also OpeniBoot for the iPhone 2g and 3G so they also could boot Android.

I fully understand that we are Linux users and love our advantages, but i think this would be some really good peace of cake we could bake^__^

If i have completed my exams by Monday, i will start learning coding...
I´ll see what it gives after some time.

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There you have:
http://opensource.apple.com/release/iphone-313/

(also joking)

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You mean... like THIS?

Bwahahah.

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It could never happen. Apple would never let it happen - iPhone 4 with good reception.

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i feel bad for people new to forums, they don't realize that most people use forums for pure fun and that includes ridiculing new people that don't know the unwritten rules.

iphone would have been a great device if it weren't for all the things apple is known for - if it weren't for apple crippling it. its a huge insult to our intelligence that its made into a closed OS, no memory expansion etc. they don't think we actually want to use our devices and simply want to buy crap from itunes through it. apple would sell you an alarm clock on which you have to pay a subscription for the current time.

i love my n800 and the n900 seems to be a great phone. but, my next phone is gonna be a Dell Streak.

port iOS
 

maybe for some this will sound stupid or whatever, but I try it anyway.
Since apple is linux, maemo is too, and android also, ppl have succeed to port a nice part of android to the n900.
Is it possible, altough it's "kinda" closed source, to port iOS to the n900?

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Don't think so. Maybe possible but will be illegal i think, since it's closed source.

Re: port iOS
 

Why would you want to port iOS?