codepoetry.net — The capabilities of the products announced at MacWorld this year, as well as the outright announcement about such a thing with the iPhone, suggest that all three (iPhone, ?tv, AirPort Extreme) are using an embedded version of Mac OS X. Now, consider the future possibilities for things like the iPod and for brand-new consumer electronics.
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naio21Jan 15, 2007
@BiakAtMacDotCom, what about turning off the RDF (reality distortion field) now?
Closed AccountJan 15, 2007
"It doesn't allow third party application, only those installed by Apple."Has this information been disclosed? I was under the impression nobody outside Apple really knew.
eurleifJan 15, 2007
"Why does this guy want a stand alone Apple PDA when the iPhone IS a PDA?"Standalone PDAs don't normally require a two-year Cingular contract.
mrlocoJan 15, 2007
@naio 21If it doesn't run an OS, then what does it run?You shlag.
ilgazJan 15, 2007
Consider future? There is a department and boss (I am Apple desktop user) saying FUD about Java, saying nobody needs it. It is just installed in BILLION devices, that makes you amazed.If there is a SINGLE technology entire market agreed on, it is Java, especially J2ME on mobile devices.Why don't they admit J2ME 2 became so powerful that it will break up the entire Cingular lock-in if they allowed it?Real consumer electronics, which you can install programs and change batteries are around for 10 years now and they run highly modified, USER FRIENDLY Linux. Perhaps they know something better?
notreason4Jan 15, 2007
I think original poster was making fun of slashdot. Slashdot is full of idiots who think they know something about engineering, but generally don't. Its interesting that everyone assumes the iPhone is running on an ARM. Apple had a job posting that mentioned ARM looking for someone wiht embedded experience--- but that doesn't mean that this is an ARM core. I suspect its actually an X86 core, just not made by intel. (Asian chip makers have x86 cores that they can build custom SOC solutions around.) But whether it runs ARM or x86 is irrelevant to whether it is OS X. And its pretty clear that it is OS X-- why would apple lie? And OS X gives them one hell of a competitive advantage.
notreason4Jan 15, 2007
"Userr Friendly" and "Linux" are a contradiction in terms. This is why Linux has failed in the marketplace (And why windows is starting to fail).Apple knows how to make user friendly. Design by committee is not how you do it, and this is holding Linux back and eroding Windows.The iPhone will probably run Java. Apple put a big push behind Java when it switched to Mac OS X... but the result has not been lots of Java apps on OS X, or written for OSX and so they have scaled back.Java had a bit success in the late 1990s... but it seems to clearly be in the decline. If there's no usefulness to J2ME on the phone because there are better ways to accomplish the same thingsw, then there is no reason to put java on there.The idea of write once, run everywhere totally has failed when it comes to cellphones.