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The part about mandating Xcode allowing Apple to switch from ARM to something else is a good point.

The part about Apple secretly running iPhone apps under an ARM emulator seems a little crackpot.

The article seems to insinuate that everything on the iPad runs under an ARM emulator. It would make more sense that OS version 3.2 running on the iPad is already compiled for the A4 (hence the astonishing speed), and only iPhone-native apps were emulated.

But you're right, it does seem a little crackpot. Couldn't someone decompile an iPad executable and see if it's ARM code or not?

It is. Even the kernel.

Ah, but that doesn't matter, because they're emulating ARM, you see.

The jailbreakers are emulating ARM too? The conspiracy deepens!

They could be running the iPhone OS as a hardware-virtualized VM!

...and then it's turtles all the way down!

You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Hmm. I just looked through my last 170 days of comments and I found the word "Turtle" exactly once. And it's in this thread.

I don't believe I need to explain the joke. +7 kind of hints that some people agree.

You're taking that in a way I didn't mean

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