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Apple Job Posting Suggests Future iPhone OS Devices

oldwatery said:
Bye bye Mac OS...Professional computers etc.
Hello Consumer electronics crap.
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Yeah, yeah, it strikes you like that if you are stuck in time and imagine they are doing this NOW in 2010, not over 10-15 years.

People have to think four dimensionally in the case of computer development. The iPhone OS will be expanding outward to become a better and faster version of OSX. What the iPhone OS facilitates is quick start up and shut down. If we can get rid of sick complexity to allow a more stable computing OS, it's awesome; with less battery usage, even better; with function comparable to a full OS, primo.

These giant machines have a great place in the world, but they are over powered for most people. I doubt you'll see pro machines vanish, just find their place at the top niche rather than something most computer owners own.
 
Why would I want a Mac Mini desktop or a MacBook Air laptop where I don't have control over my self?

With the iPad already I don't see a value of the iPhone OS on it.
I want to run my own software on a desktop or laptop, not be stuck to iPhone/iPad apps.

iPhone OS on all sorts of things is a very bad idea imo.
 
iPhone OS in Apple TV

I think that iPhone software in the Apple TV is a good idea; I hope to see it soon! :D
 
I guess my first mac is also my last. I guess Apple is setting up the plans to ditch the desktop/laptop market and their 5% market share.
 
By the time OS 11 is ready to come out, it looks like both the iPhone OS and Mac OS will have merged into 1 system.
 
What most people here are forgetting is that it is only a very small part of iPhone OS that is limiting it to a single, user-level application at a time. It does have multiple processes and theads running. In fact, the iPhone simulator simply adds a Cocoa Touch interface on top of your development platform's frameworks. Since most of the work is already done, it wouldn't be difficult to allow touch applications and non-touch applications to run side by side on your desktop.

For a larger device, such as a laptop, that limit can be removed. For even larger systems with huge displays then touch UIs become more difficult. Imagine trying to use a touch based interface instead of a mouse on a 30" screen!
 
rwilliams said:
This seems like a sneaky/clever way to gradually move people to a locked down OS where Apple can dictate the user experience. As much as I enjoy the iPhone OS on my iPod, I would not embrace a scenario where it becomes the feature OS from Apple. I'd move back to Windows or Linux in a heartbeat.
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There will always be alternatives available....
 
rwilliams said:
This seems like a sneaky/clever way to gradually move people to a locked down OS where Apple can dictate the user experience. As much as I enjoy the iPhone OS on my iPod, I would not embrace a scenario where it becomes the feature OS from Apple. I'd move back to Windows or Linux in a heartbeat.
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More like a "sneaky/clever way" to steal 30% from developers in their lucrative single-source App Store model.
 
I am viewing this webpage from my computer and I am typing this comment from my computer. I have an iPhone with a strong WiFi connection. Regardless of whether I have an iPhone and iPad, no matter what, I find the full-computer experience MUCH MUCH MUCH more enjoyable than an iPhone OS experience of the internet.

I would never buy a macbook or macbook air with an iPhone OS. I want a full-computer. The Internet is SO MUCH BETTER on a full computer.

:apple: :apple: :apple: :apple: :apple:
 
iphones4evry1 said:
I am viewing this webpage from my computer and I am typing this comment from my computer. I have an iPhone with a strong WiFi connection. Regardless of whether I have an iPhone and iPad, no matter what, I find the full-computer experience MUCH MUCH MUCH more enjoyable than an iPhone OS experience of the internet.

I would never buy a macbook or macbook air with an iPhone OS. I want a full-computer. The Internet is SO MUCH BETTER on a full computer.

:apple: :apple: :apple: :apple: :apple:
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Well yes Today that is true.
When we get our hands on the iPad and similar devices, some might find it less true.
These devices are in development so we talking 6 months or more before we get our hands on them.
So who's to say how true that will be then?
 
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