...you guys are missing the point
...Jobs is "connecting the two operating systems", that is going to allow at least one of those systems to rapidly progress (probably the mobile OS)..then
following...animallike..in tow or tandem fashion.
Ok..then what does that mean for High End Mac People..who have been waiting for news on ZFS, 256 bit processing, and related technical bellweathers?
Could be very significant.
If iPhones, iPods, iTablets, iNotebooks, iWhatevers...can all talk to the desktop..or the MAINFRAME..with extreme ease of use.
Then the CERN culture in Europe will eat Mac OS's foreever...along with Linux
and whatever Redmond patches together.
Except that only Apple will have one consistant ease of use platform across multiple technological interfaces.
Think about it..a "256 bit A chip" in a new mac...talks to a OpenMP multiprocessing computer in Berlin...helping someone in Silicon Valley order
Japanese parts using ULIW (Ultra Long Integer Word...256/512/1024) for a
special NASA project in Houston.
All documents compatible..including the voice records in data/text format.
Anything requireing "government compliance" has special code or applications
written in Obj C 3.0 of whatever "ML's"..and exactly codified to standards that may have changed last Tuesday.
The issue here is "resource enhancement"..not processor speed, not byte-width...not icon fluidity...allthough ALL of the above may be affected.
Apple is staying on course...making Intel make them what they want (chips,
source code etc.) perhaps even an "optical chip" for ultra encrypted official
Government specified iPhones..iNetpads...iONMARSpads..whatever.
We are no longer moving into the future..we crossed over that thin white
line with the sign that said "Entering the Twilight Zone".
..or Star Trek, pass me the milk and cookies Mr. Spock.
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