Hey, so there’s this wild experiment someone did—imagine this: running iOS on a Nintendo Switch. Crazy, right? This tinkerer, PatRyk (props on the quirky name), pulled off what’s probably “the world’s slowest ‘iPhone’.” It takes, wait for it…20 minutes just to start. And then, boom, apps crash like they’re allergic to success. But I guess it’s still something?
Anyway, while everyone’s buzzing about Switch 2, PatRyk decided, well, why not just throw Apple’s mobile system onto the old Switch? Takes patience—I mean, can you imagine waiting 20 minutes for it to load, just to see it flop? You’d think they’d bail after the first few tries, but nope. They stuck with it. Sounds almost like something out of a weird tech romance novel.
Digging into tech stuff now—this whole thing’s a mess, so PatRyk says using it is like signing up for a headache. They mentioned that trying to do anything makes it panic and crash. Like, you can’t even open an app without it giving up on life. But, this strange little experiment kind of shows that hey, maybe it can work if you fiddle with it enough. Maybe we’ll swap out our real iPhones for these…or maybe not.
So how did PatRyk achieve this? Enter QEMU—some open-source gizmo. ChefKissInc (a name that gives all the feels, doesn’t it?) crafted a version for the iPhone 11, and PatRyk just went “why not?” Spent a couple of days deep-diving into GitHub wizardry till iOS reluctantly shuffled to life on this odd device combo. The Switch, powered by what’s inside, had to stretch a bit to make sense of its new intern.
Wrapping this up is like trying to end a novel where the plot just keeps going. No clue if PatRyk will keep tinkering away or if this little adventure wraps here, but they’re promising more coding misadventures on the horizon. Fingers crossed for less crashing next time? Who knows. Let’s wait and see.
