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Embedded Mac OS X for Apple Consumer Electronics?

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Appleinsider reports that Apple is working an an operating system based on the core technologies in Mac OS X as the basis for upcoming devices.

According to the report, Apple intends to integrate the software into the upcoming Apple Phone which is expected in the 1st half of 2007. Meanwhile, more devices are expected and "more comprehensive plans call for it to form the bedrock of a jaw-dropping device not due to hit the market until the following year".

This embedded form of Mac OS X is expected to offer tight integration with Apple's desktop offerings.

Looprumors first offered early claims of a "light" version of Mac OS X as the basis for the rumored Apple Phone. According to their earlier report, the light version of Mac OS X would incorporate light versions of their iLife software (iCal, iTunes, iPhoto) for integration with the standard version of Mac OS X.
 
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Integration is the key, being able to transfer information in both directions seamlessly and using a common interface would be king.

Too bad it is not here today.
 
Start speculating.

What do you think this 2008 "jaw-dropping" product could be?
 
jawdropping

So we have a full year to rumor about a new apple device?
I hope its a ultra mobile touchscreen palm-top. The ultimate all-in-one.
Countdown to keynote 08!
 
Rumors, Rumors, Rumors....

I am just about ready to give up on any phone / pda from Apple! Right now I am using a Treo 650 and it's good... But not great!

If Apple is working on such a device if they don't announce MWSF I am giving up on RUMOR SITES!

Com'n apple even you are taking this too far!
 
Macrumors said:
Meanwhile, more devices are expected and "more comprehensive plans call for it to form the bedrock of a jaw-dropping device not due to hit the market until the following year".
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This jaw-dropping quote seems to be the key here, unfortunatly it sounds that we will not see it until 2008 "the following year".

Bring it on.
 
i sure hope so... mobile OS companies need some real competition to push the market in to making real, usable, integrated solutions.
 
Should be possible. Linux has been ported to the iPod. http://www.ipodlinux.org/Main_Page

If you look at the computers that were used to develop BSD Unix the iPod and a cell phone don't look so low powered. This is kind of like taking BSD back to it's roots. Mac OS X is after all just BSD with a pretty face.

Back in the day, we measured RAM in kilobytes, not MB or GB and BSD ran on those machines. I remember seeing an IBM 360 computer at UCLA that was the first machine I saw that had a full megabyte of RAM The memory unit was a cube about 8 feet on a side. I remember there were 8 racks that were cabled together to make the full 1MB and UCLAbought 9 racks so they could have a spare. The RAM was made of real "core" , about 10 million little cores each hand wired. UNIX ran on machine much, much less expensive than this, machines with just kilobytes of core. This was in the mid 1970's back when UNIX and the Internet (or "darpanet") was still new. All of this ran on a few "K" or core back then, why not do it again?
 
I doubt they'll announce a phone at MWSF if they're still working on the OS. I sincerely hope this rumour is out of date and it's just taken this long to come to light.

This new device could also be jaw-droppingly mundane, like the "Hi-Fi 2: Now with more bulk".
 
ariel said:
Ah, the newton is finally back!
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Return of another familiar classic. I for one would love to see the Newton name return, but it would feel too much like Apple clinging to the past, and a past product that was a relative failure compared to what it could have been. Not to mention Jobs pretty much killed the Newton upon arrival back at Cupertino.

Newton-like, but not Newton.

I think by now the phone is a near certainty, but what else could this be utilised for? Remember that Windows CE was used on the Sega Dreamcast.....
 
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