A enthusiast from social network X (Twitter) under the nickname Patryk (@Patrosi73) has launched the iOS operating system on the original Nintendo Switch dashboard. This has been reported by 9to5Mac publication.
According to Patryk, he spent two days running a full iOS collection inside QEMU – a simulation and a virtual machine with an open source capable of simulating different hardware architectures. Therefore, he managed to achieve a simulation of the full iOS environment directly on the Nvidia Tegra X1 processor switch. Although it seems successful, according to Patryk itself, this system is almost inactive.
I lost my mind (and two days of my life to install this). Take a look: the slowest in the world of iPhone! The load takes more than 20 minutes, the system offers Kernel Panic, after each second action, and the applications are not open, because they constantly freeze and fly out, iOS iOS describes the state of Nintendo Switch.
However, the fact that the system is often loaded is often impressive, according to 9to5mac. Especially considering that iOS, as you know, is extremely difficult to launch on anything except Apple devices (or, preferably, inside the Xcode simulation process on Mac).
For Patryk, this project seems to be more entertainment and a technical challenge rather than an effort to create something practical. It is almost not worth the output of the full iOS version for Nintendo Switch.
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