The impossible happened: Someone successfully booted iOS on an Android device

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NunoB512
NunoB512
Arena Master
• 4h agoedited

While I understand the technical achievement behind this project, I personally struggle to see the appeal. To me, this feels like a significant downgrade; the primary advantage of Android has always been the flexibility and customization offered by its software, which is simply stripped away here. Why limit a perfectly capable Android device with a restricted, non-functional OS? What a waste of time and resources in my opinion...

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TuGa121
TuGa121
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• 3h agoedited

This project only validates my long-standing point: everyone wants iOS. It’s exactly like the recent iPhone Duo animations—the moment Apple revealed them, Android fans scrambled to replicate the look, just as they've done with "liquid glass" and various other design elements. In my opinion, iOS is the superior choice, and not just because of the operating system itself. Consider that on iOS, you still get all the "Google goodies"—virtually every mainstream Google app is available on the platform. Conversely, Google will never offer native access to FaceTime or iMessage. Ultimately, choosing Apple allows you to have the best of both worlds in a single device.

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morehousemula
morehousemula
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• 1h agoedited

I felt for Apple fans seeing that and knowing that our beloved founder really did optimise every device to run speedily and safely without stutter. Although a lot of Internet chatter including me has said the specifications of Apple are on the low end side especially with the refresh rate the speed is appalling when compared to IOS on Android.


Could it be that on the original device not everything is loading at the same time until it's called as a process so therefore on Android it's says "All Aboard" and the CPU on Android is either a speculation until till its put to the test. Someone needs to do the same for Android on IPhone and see if it struggles or just completely blows them out of the water in efficiency and process management.

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morehousemula
morehousemula
Arena Apprentice
• 1h agoedited
↵NunoB512 said:

While I understand the technical achievement behind this project, I personally struggle to see the appeal. To me, this feels like a significant downgrade; the primary advantage of Android has always been the flexibility and customization offered by its software, which is simply stripped away here. Why limit a perfectly capable Android device with a restricted, non-functional OS? What a waste of time and resources in my opinion...

Its to show that beyond software there has to be truth about what price is being asked for these devices to begin with. Are we just coughing up the same thing every year for a projection or some kind of virtual machine or is it an all round from motherboard to body build. It will answer the question of how much data is being used from the motherlode cloud and cloud fare lol

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ECPirate37
ECPirate37
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• 54m ago

Very cool, but I feel ios is too limiting. I like the options of android. Like I'd really think by now ios would figure out how to allow someone to connect to wifi, and then repeat that signal using the hotspot.

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