WATCH: This hack turns your Android Wear device into an ‘Apple Watch’

 

 

A smartwatch owner has finally gotten Apple software to run on his Android-based device.

 

But Corbin Davenport's hack turned his Samsung Gear Live not into the swanky Apple Watch - but into a miniature working version of the Apple computer from more than 20 years ago.

 

"I'm back with an Apple Macintosh II from 1987 being emulated on my Samsung Gear Live. I guess there's more than one way to get an Apple Watch," he said in his YouTube video.

 

Davenport's video showed him booting up the Samsung smartwatch and running a really tiny version of the more than 20-year-old operating system.

 

But as his video shows, one can't do much productivity-wise on the Mac System 6 mainly because its buttons are too small.

 

This is not the first time Davenport had squeezed in a desktop computer OS into a smartwatch. Last year, he got Windows 95 running on his Samsung Gear.

 

A separate report on Android Police said Davenport used Mini vMac II to emulate the Macintosh II on his Android Wear device.

 

"It's almost unusable on the Gear Live's tiny screen, but it technically works. It's actually pretty fast too. If you can hit the right button, things open about as fast as they did on the original machine. Crazy people take note—you can run this archaic OS on your watch now. Please don't, though," it said. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News