Okay, so here’s the scoop. There’s this tech guru — PatRyk — who pulled off this wild stunt: running Apple’s iOS on a Nintendo Switch. Yeah, you heard me right. But don’t go throwing a party just yet because, as PatRyk jokes, it’s now “the world’s slowest ‘iPhone’.” Takes a whole 20 minutes to boot up, and all the apps crash. But hey, it’s… something?
So, while all eyes are on the newly launched Switch 2, PatRyk was knee-deep in this experiment, spending like two whole days trying to jam Apple’s mobile OS into the beloved console. Talk about patience. I can’t help but wonder how many times they had to sit there, fingers crossed, praying it wouldn’t fail again after 20 minutes of waiting.
Using it sounds like a torture test, honestly. You know, like those times everything just goes wrong? PatRyk mentions the system basically freaks out every second task. Apps? Yeah, good luck. They crash like it’s going out of style.
But, here’s the thing — this might sound like a disaster, but it’s also a tiny ray of hope that iOS-on-Switch could actually work one day. Not saying you’ll be replacing your iPhone with a Switch anytime soon, though.
The brains behind this? QEMU! Some open-source wizardry adapted for Apple by ChefKissInc. It’s this emulator that lets you mess around with Apple devices. And after two days of brain-busting coding, PatRyk finally got iOS to at least get up and say hello on a system not meant for it, powered by Nvidia Tegra X1 no less.
Are they gonna keep at this mad science experiment? Who knows. But PatRyk hints at more to come, so stay tuned for more tech hijinks, maybe sooner than later. Seriously, keep an eye out.
