can i run iOS apps on my Mac?

I have seen a number of houses iPhone apps that recently I like to use. In particular, a number of houses musical applications (metronome, tuner, etc.) that seem highly rated and have no equivalent in Mac. I do not have a recent iPod / iPhone / iPad (do not need portability or a phone, and I seems silly to pay hundreds of dollars to run $ 15 worth of applications), but I have a Intel (C2D) Mac processor. iPhone may dev simulator, or any other emulator, download and run the iPhone apps from the App Store?

Possible ? Yes, but ... now the only way to run iOS apps on Mac is through the iPhone / iPad Simulator (available in iOS SDK) ... And you need the source code of the application you want run.

Unfortunately, the iPhone / iPad simulator is only available as part of the dev tools, and contains no synchronization with iTunes skills. It also does not have an application in the app store, so you can not purchase applications from the simulator.

As primary use is for developers to test their applications without the actual hardware you will most likely never see the features you want to be added to the simulator.

If you are developing applications iOS XCode, you can use the iPhone or iPad emulator to run your application, but there is no way to run a precompiled application (as in the app store)

Without it would not be possible, unless someone came one with iOS emulator that lets you run ARM based binaries on your Intel-based Mac / PC. Basically the same as what they've done with reverse engineering and the resulting Super Nintendo emulators that have been written to emulate Super Nintendo roms. No doubt someone will do one day many years from now.