Martijn de Vos, known under the pseudonym devos50, managed to emulate the iPhone OS 1.0 operating system, used on the iPod Touch in 2007, a few months after the release of the very first iPhone.
If you’ve known this operating system, the developer’s technical prowess should make you nostalgic. Old-fashioned icon, the presence of missing applications (all devices had a homemade version of YouTube), everything is there.
But the project was not easy to implement. According to de Vos, “the hardest part was emulating the hardware components of the iPod touch.” That’s why he chose to emulate the first version of the iPhone operating system for the iPod instead of the iPhone. Apple’s smartphone would have required even more emulation of hardware components, which would have complicated the task.
