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Would that even be possible on iOS for non Apple employees? My idea would be just to create a program that continually creates Unicode strings and display them

Would that even be possible on iOS for non Apple employees? My idea would be just to create a program that continually creates Unicode strings and display them on screen with a pause before creating and displaying the next. Record the screen and see if any thing exciting happens. Would never end, if there was a SETI @ Home style program for it with insentives for running it would be cool.

thephyber 9y ago
> Would that even be possible on iOS for non Apple employees? iOS emulator (part of XCode) might be enough.
- enzanki_ars 9y ago
  Ah. Forgot that existed for some reason. (Windows/Linux user that gets screwed out of programming for my own phone. Hate that....)
  - gsich 9y ago
    Use Hackintosh or a VM.
    - enzanki_ars 9y ago
      Given that Apple does not design their OS to work on anything but their hardware, the pain I would incur trying to set up either option is just not worth it. Unless someone has published a stable and updated pre-built VM for macOS, it just seems like nothing but trouble.
      - ladberg 9y ago
        You should look up if your hardware has been used for Hackintosh by anyone else. I lucked out and my PC has nearly identical specs to this /r/hackintosh post and my install went flawlessly: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/2mgq9e/everything_working_yosemitez97iplusgtx970/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/2mgq9e/everythi...
      - gsich 9y ago
        I was talking about those pre-built VMs.
      - userbinator 9y ago
        Not so long ago I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to setup a Hackintosh VM in VirtualBox --- all I did was create a VM with the default settings, add the all-important SMCDeviceKey, insert a completely stock El Capitan ISO, and it booted up and installed on the first try. All on hardware that was as non-Apple as it gets (a ThinkPad.) The only thing that I found somewhat confusing and perhaps a bit un-Apple was the fact that the installer would not prompt me to partition and format the HDD first, but was perfectly happy to let me try to select and then fail to install onto the install media itself (with an odd "not enough space" message); I had to use the Disk Utility to do that before going back to the installer. I've always wondered why --- even Windows' installer includes partitioning and formatting as one of its steps.
        charrondev 9y ago
        Like because there isn’t a single current official device with a user replaceable hard drive.
- umanwizard 9y ago
  Simulator, not emulator. (There is a difference, and it is significant).
saagarjha 9y ago
This is also an issue in macOS, which is a lot easier to test on.

thephyber 9y ago

> Would that even be possible on iOS for non Apple employees? iOS emulator (part of XCode) might be enough.

enzanki_ars 9y ago
Ah. Forgot that existed for some reason. (Windows/Linux user that gets screwed out of programming for my own phone. Hate that....)
- gsich 9y ago
  Use Hackintosh or a VM.
  - enzanki_ars 9y ago
    Given that Apple does not design their OS to work on anything but their hardware, the pain I would incur trying to set up either option is just not worth it. Unless someone has published a stable and updated pre-built VM for macOS, it just seems like nothing but trouble.
    - ladberg 9y ago
      You should look up if your hardware has been used for Hackintosh by anyone else. I lucked out and my PC has nearly identical specs to this /r/hackintosh post and my install went flawlessly: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/2mgq9e/everything_working_yosemitez97iplusgtx970/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/2mgq9e/everythi...
    - gsich 9y ago
      I was talking about those pre-built VMs.
    - userbinator 9y ago
      Not so long ago I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to setup a Hackintosh VM in VirtualBox --- all I did was create a VM with the default settings, add the all-important SMCDeviceKey, insert a completely stock El Capitan ISO, and it booted up and installed on the first try. All on hardware that was as non-Apple as it gets (a ThinkPad.) The only thing that I found somewhat confusing and perhaps a bit un-Apple was the fact that the installer would not prompt me to partition and format the HDD first, but was perfectly happy to let me try to select and then fail to install onto the install media itself (with an odd "not enough space" message); I had to use the Disk Utility to do that before going back to the installer. I've always wondered why --- even Windows' installer includes partitioning and formatting as one of its steps.
      - charrondev 9y ago
        Like because there isn’t a single current official device with a user replaceable hard drive.
umanwizard 9y ago
Simulator, not emulator. (There is a difference, and it is significant).

saagarjha 9y ago

This is also an issue in macOS, which is a lot easier to test on.