[STEAM] My iPad runs Windows XP now, and it’s all I ever wanted

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Yep, still bad at Minesweeper. | Photo: Wes Davis / The Verge Apple recently

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that enables your iPhone or iPad (or Vision Pro!) to masquerade as PC hardware and run honest-to-goodness computer desktop operating systems. Some of you asked in the comments section of my last story how it runs — a fair question that I couldn’t answer at the time. But now that I’ve tried it a little, I have answers, and I can say this much: it’s better than I expected, but I wouldn’t count on it for too much.

That’s because it doesn’t use a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, which translates software into code that your device understands before it’s *********. JIT compilers

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for the App Store, so you’d have to jailbreak your phone to install a

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