Comment Re:Yet Apple can't port iOS apps to Macs? (Score 1) 223
Apple's position is not that you can't run an iOS app on your Mac. They provide an emulator for free with the development kit. Apple's position is that you generally don't want to run iOS applications except on a phone or tablet. They may be wrong (although there's a distinct lack of apps on my iPhone that would make sense on my desktop or laptop computers), but it's a conscious decision.
Sorry, but that "emulator" is a similator only.. It requires the original code of the app to run, and can't do anything but surf the web, the other "apps" are dummies. It's only applicatiion is to let devs see how their app would behave on an iOS device. It can't run external iOS apps. As far as wanting to run these apps on OSX, perhaps there's similar productivity apps for the OSX platform, but when it comes to games such as pinball, over 90% of the currently available ones are iOS only. Since the developers of many keep promising to port them to OSX, but never do, an emulator is currently the only optionsort of having several devices for all the games, short of an iOS layer in OSX..