Apple app for windows

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Do you mean apps for iPhone/iPodTouch?

No, applications written for iOS will not run under Windows. They won't run on OSX, either. Nor Linux, Android, or any other OS.

With few, very rare exceptions, applications must be run on the operating system for which they were written.

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Do you mean apps for iPhone/iPodTouch?

No, applications written for iOS will not run under Windows. They won't run on OSX, either. Nor Linux, Android, or any other OS.

With few, very rare exceptions, applications must be run on the operating system for which they were written.
 
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In theory it could possibly be tweaked and rebuilt by the developer, and the use of Intel chips by Apple helps matters, but in practice then the OSes just provide too different an interface for it to be an easy job unless it is a really simple app.

What you would basically need is either use of standard libraries across all OSes (like .Net/Mono) or an entire interoperability layer (like Wine on Linux for running Windows apps) plus complete ports of any libraries that it needs (Carbon/Quartz/etc). If the app is written in a way that ties it to OS X then it isn't a simple job by any stretch of the imagination.
 
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