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Apple Job Posting Suggests Future iPhone OS Devices
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Not going to happen - EVER.
iPhone OS is a subset of regular Max OSX anyway.
What this is probably signaling like mentioned in the article is that there will be OSX and then mobile OSX.
AppleTV seems like a likely candidate for iPhone OS treatment as do things like their time capsule.
I also would bet Apple is thinking about a a larger version of the iPad that would be similar in concept to Microsoft surface.
iPad isn't out as yet and they are already talking about some other iDevice...
Hahahahahaha...
You'd be a rather stupid businessman if you didn't.
Replacing OSX with the iPhone OS?
No thanks, I use my computer for more than just dicking around. Any sort of content production (from simple reports, to design, to media) requires a real computer. Apple has for a while now slowly been abandoning its pro market. But at least it is encouraging that Windows is now a fully competent, high quality OS as well.
Remember folks... just because something is simple, does not mean it is easy.
No thanks, I use my computer for more than just dicking around. Any sort of content production (from simple reports, to design, to media) requires a real computer. Apple has for a while now slowly been abandoning its pro market. But at least it is encouraging that Windows is now a fully competent, high quality OS as well.
Remember folks... just because something is simple, does not mean it is easy.
Imagine an iPad like device in the center stack of a vehicle. Imagine an iPad like alarm clock. Imagine an iPad like interface for househould appliances (washer, dryer, fridge). Imagine an iPad like device where the light switches are in every room to control audio, climate, and telecommunications. Imagine an iPhone OS based Apple TV......................
As long as that iPhone OS remains mono-tasking it's next to useless for other uses. Just one application at the time? How do you envision this? DOS 5.5 all over.
Especially when you are imagining entire product lines based on that newest device.
Tech support so much easier
All I see here are nerds saying "Don't take away my ability to fine tune my computer." What about the employees and family you support? A locked-down OS would bring my tech support calls down to nearly nothing and allow me to get my work done. About 90% of the people in my family and office just need e-mail, web, Word and Excel. The less you allow them to mess up, the less they will mess things up and the more free time you'll have.
All I see here are nerds saying "Don't take away my ability to fine tune my computer." What about the employees and family you support? A locked-down OS would bring my tech support calls down to nearly nothing and allow me to get my work done. About 90% of the people in my family and office just need e-mail, web, Word and Excel. The less you allow them to mess up, the less they will mess things up and the more free time you'll have.
Printing?
Current me: How are they missing this? I'd buy thirty if only this thing could print!
Future me: Printing? Oh you mean that thing we use to do in the early days of the 21st century?
Current me: How are they missing this? I'd buy thirty if only this thing could print!
Future me: Printing? Oh you mean that thing we use to do in the early days of the 21st century?
Call your friends from your TV!
I think Apple is going to make a couch potato world even more couch potatoey.
I could see a dual boot MacBook air with touchscreen and osx/iPhone OS.
Instant on with massive battery life when you need it!
that would be SO AWESOME. I could also see them making Dashboard the iPhone OS, too possibly. Widgets aren't nearly as popular as Apps...
As long as the keep OS X i'll be happy.
While I'm not as fond of devices, the iPhone OS is much more appropriate than the gray area iPad.
Something small and expensive to lose. The only small device I have is a phone and I lose that on a regular basis.
Bring the wonderful Mac OS X to the devices (touch or whatever) and not the limited iPhone OS to the devices. Give freedom and power to people to install and access files and customize (like the Mac does) and not the other way (like the iPhone does, blocking and preventing almost anything). That is the way - The Mac way; not the iPhone way!!!
I believe my current phone is worth about US$10 at most. I've only used about an hour or two of talk time on it in the past two years.
Have to disagree here. I really believe that the iPhone OS / iPad is the future of Apple. I think this is just the first baby step in many.
Management of all 3rd party Apps? Yup, I believe Apple wants this.
Tighter control over the OS? Yup, Apple loves this.
Get used to it folks. This is the future of Apple.
Do I think this is bad or good? I think it's mix of both. I think Jobs' vision is the original intent of the PC: a computer for everyone. Right now, PCs and Macs are highly complex vehicles (which personally, I love). However, I think Jobs and Co. want to market to everyone else. We're such a small subset of the overall pool of computer users.
This isn't going to happen over night, but in about 5 years? I believe that Macs will be a very small part of Apple whereas their consumer electronics will be the bulk of what Apple does. Then again, it's pretty much like that already.
w00master
hmm. Several have suggested an Air with iphone OS and a touchscreen. Isn't this exactly like the ipad with a slightly larger screen? What's the point?
Your point makes absolutely no sense. iPhone OS IS Mac OSX. It just has all the stuff it doesn't need stripped (e.g. mouse drivers and printer drivers) out and a Darwin is replaced with a different GUI layer.
The only real difference between iPhone OSX and Mac OSX under the hood is that one is compiled for intel and the other for the iPhone ARM processor with the requisite kexts.
So again, there is no way that Macs in the future will have the iPhone OS as in its user interface which you seem to imply. This would be completely absurd and goes against the OSX way of obsessiveness with UI and experience.
This and the OSX platform would lose 20-30% of its base customers if access to Unix goes away.
I know you are seems to be into crazy conspiracies, but the best user experience for a phone in Apple's view is their iPhone approach. Their best approach to the desktop experience is the OSX approach in their view and this WILL NOT change every.
If anything, iPad and iPhone will continue their push toward more functionality like regular OSX as mobile hardware becomes more capable. The iPad for instance appears to be significantly more desktop capable than its iPhone/iTouch counterparts.
Also a good chunk of the business that goes to Mac OSX
Now will Apple supply a different array of PC's and computers? One this point I agree and in this regard Apple will undoubtedly choose the appropriate level of interface for each device they sell, but again everything apple is signaling on the iPhone OS platforms seems to be going toward "appliances", not PC's and computers.