What I mean is that apple has an evaluation process that they run your app through before they will accept it onto their market (even for free). Since apple users CAN'T install applications from outside the apple market, any app you provide MUST be provided via the apple market. One of their criteria is that it does not and can not in any way compete with anything that they themselves are producing or interested in producing (including if they see your app and like it enough that they want to STEAL it -- they have a LOOOONG history of this, right back to the idea of a GUI that they stole from Xerox). Since this emulator would basically be able to run ANY android app withOUT the need to go through their evaluation process, it is GUARANTEED to allow users to run applications that have NOT gone through the evaluation process, which means that any user will be able to run whatever they like. This is most definitely not compatible with their objective of taking all of everybody's money away from them and so it will definitely NOT pass their evaluation process.
Regarding your cellphone-->pc-->mainframe observations.... just remember the kind of desktop computers that were in use, say, 10-20 years ago.... the problem is that as the hardware becomes more powerful, the software becomes more complex, and so the overall user- feel remains about the same. I remember when I got my 386DX-25 w/4MB ram.... it was blisteringly fast (at the time), but even this phone is orders of magnitude more powerful to the point that if I were to run the same software on this phone as I ran on the desktop computer I used in the latter part of the 80's, I would be severely under- utilizing the hardware. The reverse is also true, there is no possible way that a 386DX-25 w/4MB ram would be able to run android. Basically what this means is that though yes, the phone hardware will advance, what you are (or want to) do with it is also advancing, so you can basically figure that your handheld hardware will ALWAYS be at a deficit in terms of what you would really like to do. Of course, there is another way that things can go here.... with improvements in networking and virtual computing, the need for a powerful handheld computer may diminish. Imagine holding a device that is little more than an interface to the much more powerful computer that you have connected from home... like a remote X-server. You touch the screen HERE to launch a process THERE, the results of which display HERE. All this thing would have to do is connect to some future-type network wirelessly to receive audio and visual information, and transmit audio, visual, and keypresses back (maybe some other stuff, like GPS and accelerometer). You know, we already have more than enough processing power to handle that kind of activity, the bottleneck is the network, which is going to steadily improve over time (and hopefully drop in cost) and will very soon be able to deal with this kind of thing reliably. > > One thing you can be absolutely certain of though... there is no way > > in hell that an app to run android apps will EVER be accepted onto > > their evil nazi market, which means that this will never be able to > > help out developers to reach apple customers. > > Can you please elaborate on this , does it mean an iphone user won't > be allowed to run a free app (i would like it to be free) that will > emulate android .., or is there some other restrictions ... > > and one more thing i see what PCs are to mainframes , smartphones are > to PCs (in terms of processing power and the rate of development --may > be the moorie's law).so the processing power may be a concern now but > may not be 5 years from now..please correct me if my assumptions are > wrong. > > > On Aug 31, 6:40 am, mohangupta13 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > well as some people mentioned about the closed apis and other things > > > and specially apple sueing me (that i want the least) > > > so how about the opposite thing ..making an emulator to run android > > > apps on iphone..apis are open and i believe no one will sue me for > > > that and also *if* its successful it may help android developers with > > > a wider market and won't do any disservice to open source . > > > > Please let me know your views ... i really need help or any other > > > suggestion for a nice project related to mobile operating systems > > > > thanks and regards > > > Mohan > > > > > On Aug 26, 2:54 pm, mohangupta13 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > hello all, > > > > > i am very new to android and my query may seem absolutely absurd > > > > > but as part of my university project i was thinking about developing > > > > > some kind of (wine like) emulator to run iphone apps on android > > > > > platform. > > > > > so can you please guide me with this, like is there any other similar > > > > > project going or what are the resources that i can use or what > > > > > technical challenges i may face. > > > > > > every help is appreciated > > > > > > thanks > > > > > Mohan- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
