Martijn de Vos (Martijn de Vos), also known as Devos50, ran the first version of the iPhone operating system on PC, which was released for the first generation iPod touch in 2007. The implementation of the project took more than a year.

On his developer blog, he explains that the hard part is emulating the iPod touch’s hardware components. That’s why the developer decided to emulate the first iPhone OS build made for the iPod instead of the iPhone, as even more components would need to be emulated for the iPhone version to work.

At the same time, de Vos also chose iPhone OS 1.0 Due to the fact that this version has much less security mechanisms than later versions of the operating system: “Modern Apple devices contain many additional hardware components, such as neural engines, safe zones, and various sensors; a complex and time-consuming task”.

iPhone OS 1.0 It is successfully emulated on PC using QEMU, an open source virtualization platform. The system is completely mouse and keyboard controlled and most of the installed programs work smoothly. The developer said this is probably the first time someone has spoofed the iPhone operating system using open source tools. In the next project, Vos wants to run iPhone OS 2.1 on a computer. Source