This is a nice little find from the folks over at 9to5Mac: The creators of a new Kickstarter project called iEmu are working on a desktop emulator that lets you run iOS apps on your Mac or Windows machine, and your Android device. Hey, remember playing old school console games on your Mac? Now you'll be able to do so with all the new iOS games.
iEmu is based on the open-source QEMU emulator and will even have the ability to run iPad and iPhone apps that utilize the compass, accelerometer and GPS. It's quite a project, and 9to5Mac notes that the $20,000 the creator raised is just to pay for his living expenses for three months while he works out all the kinks in this app.
And of course, it also raises the question of how legal this whole idea really is and whether or not the emulator app will require that you've purchased the iOS app before running it. After all, what stops freeloaders from putting the apps up on a torrent site and seeding them to the rest of the crowd that just wants to toil around with a few iOS games on their computers?
MacMike
August 30, 2011 at 3:27pm
You can bet this licensing violation nightmare will be squashed soon after it sees the light of day. This guy might need more than $20k for his ensuing legal fees.
