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- DannyDiggler, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35Apple would be very silly indeed not to have been developing a mini OS X along side the main OS transition to Intel... If the rumors are true about the iPhone, I believe it's going to shake up the handset market in the same way that the iPod did, i.e. easy to use interface, friendly navigation, seamless syncing, and beautiful hardware design. Nokia, Sony, Moto and Samsung had better watch out...
- wild, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Yes, it auto-redirects. :-)
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20Please, please, stop posting iPhone rumors
- rhesuspieces00, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I seriously doubt it. Whatever OS the iPhone uses will probably share some aspects of the Look & Feel used in OS X, but I would be very suprised if there is much in the way Darwin code being used. We're still a couple generations away from that sort of processing power in a consumer-grade mobile device.
- iamapun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Zelda and the Waist of Time: Link's quest to find a mystical belt that allows the wearer to travel through time.
- alternnate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Put yet another iStuff rumour in digg with a question mark in the end?
- austindkelly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10http://www.duggmirror.com
-- Original Story : http://techdigest.tv/2006/11/iphone_will_spo.html - brendanc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm really getting tired of these. It makes headlines because of the question mark, because if the person said " iPhone will sport mini OS X ", then obviously it would be untrue. Yet putting a questionmark at the end makes it OK because they aren't really lying. Take, this possible headline for example:
"Steve Jobs gave Bill Gates a BJ?" NOW OBVIOUSLY it isn't true. But it could make the front page because its asking a question. The article need not even have anything substantial in it either because people with neither read the article, nor read the description. They'll just "lol" and digg it. Lame.
MORE than likely, this is just someone blowing something they saw way out of proportions. You *can* make anything look like OS X. Even Windows XP, so it doesn't matter what the phone's OS is. Seriously, just because you see an OS X styled window doesn't mean that it is running OS X. - UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ugh.
I am an Apple fanboi. I am digging this down becuase I am tired of the speculation.Its boring and a waste of time.
"iPhone to sport OSX 11.0 code named Pink Panther and come attached to a toilet that you can carry around and use!!"
Anyone can guess anything. Until I see something from an offical source all of these phone threads are doing to get dugg down by me. - urandom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Newton OS!
- FoxtrotUSAF, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9I'm getting sick of these rumors too. This is boarder line spaming. It's all just speculation and speculation is not news. I won't believe anything about an iPhone unless it comes directly from apple in a public statment. No more leaked emails or "insider info".
- cbeach, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6More iPhone rumours. And this one, although likely, is PURE SPECULATION with no factual basis, except for a lovely mock-up picture.
Reported as "innaccurate," as with all speculative articles.
I want to see REAL APPLE NEWS. I'm fed up having to wade through these junk articles. - willemmulder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6yes, they do, because Duggmirror detects from what page you came and will show the correct article...
edit: I'm telling something what already is told... And I didn't even auto-recopy - UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4
"Hey baby, im featuring a woody right now. Lets get it on."
or
"Hey baby. im sport'in a woody right now. Lets get it on."
You tell me. - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I doubt it : "Will the New iPhone [...]" ?
- Ben - macatak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i just want a phone the same size as my nano. I'm more than happy to carry around a few things that size
- jonj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4pointless speculation. dugg down as inaccurate.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9I don't know if they have developed OS X mobile, obviously it sounds good because it probably would be. All the analysts are saying if the iPhone get's 1 or 2% etc. it would be great for Apple.
The reason they chose to make a few different types/sizes of iPod's, i.e. tiny cheap flash, medium flash, and large HD, is because they saw markets for each one. There's already a proven market for a music phone device (albeit a small one, relatively speaking), and a proven market for smart phones.
However I think if they make a cool phone that's easy to use, a has a few neat features like the iPod's music capability, and a smartphone that will give smartphone customers what they're looking for, i.e. if they make 2 phones like the rumors are suggesting, and do it in an Apple way, they may be looking at (I think) as much as 10% of all new phones sold in 2007. That's a realistic statement based on how high iPod market share is (80% or so), in a competitive mp3 player market. In the end the numbers will speak for themselves, but 10% may prove to be an underestimization. - urandom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does anyone remember the Newton?
Apple made a PDA a while back called the messagepads, and rather than fitting a mini-version of Mac OS on it, they completely wrote a new OS from the ground up called Newton OS. It was in no way based off of Mac OS and was built specifically for the PDAs, and for this reason it was obscenely stable and functional.
Therefore my guess is that if apple comes out with an iPhone, it's going to be similar; a new OS from the ground up with the look and feel of OS X. Trying to fit an OS designed for the desktop on to a phone will be disastrous, just look at today's UMPCs which are terribly designed and unstable compared to the old Newton.
I personally hope they will bring back the newton entirely but I've been saying that fr ages now. - trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@kubudubudubuntu
Don't forget Windows Mobile...
Wait, wouldn't that would be the reason to make a mini OSX? - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There's no way in hell a cell phone is going to run the heavy Mach BSD micro-kernel. Whoever made up this rumor really has zero clue how operating systems work and how OSX is designed.
- sancho320, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2With a company like Apple, you have no choice but to speculate. Granted 90% of the Apple related rumors out there are false, or at least a bit off. But when a company keeps everything a secret, like Apple does, there is no way for anyone to be on the same page about anything without rumors and their respective "leaks". So here's a question mark for you: Has Apple officially announced the iPhone yet?
- marksy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3_sigh_ yet another person asking/guessing about some product. If you don't have any facts, its not a story - just your own opinion which most people don't care about.
- b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Hi. Well, it's this new Zelda game right, and you find a mystical belt that lets you dance through ti...
Hello? Nintendo?
You there?" - malliemcg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't think it would be smart for apple to use a full blown OS on an embedded device.
Take the iPod - a small embedded designed for purpose OS.
Take OS X - a large multipurpose OS, very resource intensive. Stripping OS X down to a phone level OS would probably not be the best move. An interface that felt like OS X, yeah a good thing, but to honestly believe for a moment taking the event model, memory management etal from OS X and shoving it on a phone, I honestly dont think so. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The morons who digg it are the ones to blame.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This WhateverOS was created by Apple? :-P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1buried as spam
- halik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4tagged as lame... enough of this stupid crap
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's this Linux based MP3 player coming on the market (out of Japan) that allows you to plug it into your PC and boot into Linux. Now, wouldn't it be cool if you could connect your iPhone to your PC and boot into a stripped down version of OSX? Well, one can dream... one can dream...
- macatak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2why do people use words like excellent, amazing and awesome? Surely double-plus-good would do us all?
- allenb, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8"In the end the numbers will speak for themselves, but 10% may prove to be an underestimization."
Or, if you want to save both your keyboard and the English language, an underestimate. ;-) - sweintraub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2look at the Sony UX-90...then subtract all of the unnecesary packaging, put in a smaller, more enrgy efficient screen, use a stripped down OSX varient (see Damn Small Linux which runs fine on 8 year old hardware)
Add Apple's award winning industrial Design. Not impossible.
Not if, but when? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You dumb people! It's just like Windows Mobile!
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7All the iPhone rumors will stop January 8th 2007 :P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope the iphone has bluetooh, wifi, qwerty keyboard, quad band , expandable memory, and a very good camera on it, decent battery life, then i am sold, make it run skype to
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1link baleeted.
- AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These lame iPhone rumors are seriously making me consider turning off Apple from my news items. And I'm a Mac user.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3And instead of playing the song of time, you have to dance to it?
This is shaping up to be a good game, let's call Nintendo! - nightstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hum....
If such a device is coming. I keep getting the impression its basically a core unit that you can add features to. Just want a wide screen PMP... Ok. Add in a phone... Ok... Keyboard... Ok... Camera OK... This would fit the rumors.
Which would require a core OS. Like a stock computer OS.
After fighting people's Windows Mobile 5 problem this year. If they could pull a different solid OS to power this stuff would be great. MS has made a messy os that feels like a hack to make it work on smartphones.
The real opening beyond smartphones is when roll up displays become available. - firemillen2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1deadbaby, don't ruin the iFanboys' dreams.
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It is fairly obvious: An embedded OS X kernel is more like the embedded Linux kernel that is the mainstream choice in mobile and VoIP handsets than some oddball RTOS that is appropriate for a very limited application.
- kimos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2News?
- Peeping_Tom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Erm......I don't think i'm going to post on Digg again after this.....
- codyfrisch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Shut up I don't care about your opinion about other peoples opinions!
- norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why do people enjoy saying "sport" instead of "support" or "feature"?
- rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sweet! Now you cell phone wont be able to run anything either, cool!
- shayanoh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with deadbaby too! I guess it'll have something like the current iPod interface, maybe slightly changing it to support a stylus pen.
- kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It would be silly if they did develop their own mobile OS,,.. Theres already Symbian or linux for mobile phones, make compatible gadgets please, not yet another mobile OS that will never become a dominating standard !!! And Symbian is already a really good OS, both S60 3rd and the UIQ 3... they would certainly get a big part of the smartphone market with such a phone.
http://forum.nokia.com/
http://my-symbian.com/ - Citronjaune, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The Newton is completly useless... This market is soooo overcrowded with Treo, Blackberry, HTC & so on.
Apple need to sell a product to a lot of persons. Professionals that need Blackberry-like phone won't buy an Apple product... They'll buy Microsoft compliant devices.
If Apple want to sell a phone they have to sell a device that as the same audience as the iPod : teenagers, middle age & so on... as Sony Ericsson products...
The Newton is so dead... Turn the page. -
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