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0 pointsnodamage9y ago0 comments

Sure you do. If you want to run an iOS app written for iOS 5 you can go dig up your old iPhone out of the closet (or eBay), put iOS 5 on it, and run it again.

If you want to run that same app on iOS 10 on your iPhone 7, well, that's an entirely different set of expectations.

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toyg9y ago· 1 in thread

> you can go dig up your old iPhone out of the closet

Yeah, but the point is, I don't have to do that with old DOS programs. I get an emulator, whip out my old binaries, and it runs on my shiny new PC.

On iOS, strictly speaking, there is no such option -- you will have to go to a non-iOS device to run an emulator - and this assuming either Apple is still hosting iOS5 apps (which probably won't be the case for long), or I have some backup (again on non-iOS) that I can somehow leverage.

It would be very kind of Our Betters At Apple to allow some sort of iOS-on-iOS emulator, if they're at all serious with the "iPad for work" concept. Companies already struggle with Microsoft upgrade policies that are much more conservative...

mod9y ago

> On iOS, strictly speaking, there is no such option

And more importantly, apple would shut down such an option.

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