I've seen a number of neat iPhone apps recently that I'd like to use. In particular, there are a number of neat musical apps (metronome, tuner, etc.) that seem highly rated, and have no real Mac equivalent. I don't have a recent iPod/iPhone/iPad (I don't need portability or a phone and it seems silly to pay hundreds of dollars to run $15 worth of apps), but I do have an Intel (C2D) Mac.
Can the iPhone dev simulator, or any other emulator, download and run iPhone App Store apps?
KenKen
Run Windows programs on Mac OS X without buying a Windows license. Bootcamp is a Mac native utility app which allow you to install Windows on your Mac computer. It creates partition for Windows OS and add Mac support software. So you can use your MacBook brightness, trackpad functions on Windows. RunThatApp is relatively new iOS emulator for both Windows PC and Mac and the best part about this emulator is that you don’t need to download any special softwares to run it, its fully browser based emulator that not only can run iOS but also you can test out Android in it.
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AFAIK, iPhone simulator doesn't download an application from the App Store; it's just used to debug an iOS application you are developing.
kiamlalunokiamlaluno
If you are developing iOS apps in XCode, you can use the iPhone or iPad emulator to run your app, but there is no way to run a precompiled app (such as from the app store)
uSlackruSlackr
Possible? Yes, but...currently the only way to run iOS apps on a Mac is via the iPhone/iPad Simulator (available in the iOS SDK)...AND you need the source code for the app you want to run.
MeltemiMeltemi
Unfortunately the iPhone/iPad simulator is only available as part of the dev tools, and does not contain any syncing abilities with iTunes. It also doesn't have an app store app, so you can't buy applications from within the simulator.
As it's primary use is for developers to test their apps without the actual hardware you will most likely never see the features you want added to the simulator.
CovarCovar
No it wouldn't be possible, unless somebody came a up with an iOS emulator that would let you run ARM based binaries on your Intel based Mac/PC. Basically the same as what they have done with reverse engineering the Super Nintendo and the resultant emulators that have been written to emulate Super Nintendo roms. No doubt someone will do it one day many years from now.
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