We wrote last year about a developer who successfully emulated iPhone OS on a Mac using QEMU. At the time, the original firmware of the 1st generation iPod touch was used to demonstrate that emulating ...

Apple’s first handset in 2007 ran iPhone OS. And the 2020 model might run an operating system with the same name. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac Before there was iOS, early Apple handsets ran iPhone OS.

(1) No major iOS update has been announced simultaneously with the corresponding year's new phone (unless you count iPhone OS 1 and the original iPhone, I suppose). Since it's been possible for app ...