AI revives a 15-year-old abandoned project
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Developers use AI and simulator technology to bring back the iOS 4 card-style multitasking interface, which had been dormant for 15 years, previously only discovered on the iPhone 4 prototype in 2011. Developers extracted the root filesystem of the prototype and used ChatGPT to assist QEMU simulator startup, demonstrating the 3x3 grid layout of applications arranged in card form and the interaction method of switching applications by double-pressing the Home key.
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Developers use AI and emulator technology to bring back the iOS 4 card-style multitasking interface, which had been hidden for 15 years and was previously only found on the iPhone 4 prototype in 2011. Developers extracted the root filesystem of the prototype and used ChatGPT to assist QEMU emulator startup, demonstrating the 3x3 grid layout of apps arranged in card form and the interaction method of switching apps by double-pressing the Home key.
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