iPhone simulator for Windows

Before I install any new software/app, I like to test it or get a feel of it in a virtual environment. On Windows it is easy. But so far, I have not been able to find a way to run iPhone apps in a virtual environment.

I think iTunes should have been able to test drive iPhone apps, but it doesn't.

The steps to create iPhone simulator are straight-forward:

1. Have an emulator for ARM processor (the processor in iPhone)
2. Get a modified version of iPhone OS (either from the apple website, or iPhone and then modify it like http://www.osx86project.org/ )
3. And design a nice UI to itegrate the iPhone hardware emulator and the OS; also import apps from iTunes, run jail-broken iPhone apps.

Looks like this has not been done.


Here are the closest I could find:

1. iBBDemo - Blackbaud iPhone Browser Simulator - simulates iPhone's safari web browser.
2. http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/ - Simulates iPhone's safari web browser.
3. Desktop iPhone from Ribbit - This is a webapp written using Adobe Air. You need to install Adobe Air to run it. It can simulate some pre-defined apps, you may need to create account with Ribbit. To me this looks like a pretty useless software. Here is a video of someone trying this.