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iPhone eats up Leopard
Apple has been forced to delay the release of its OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system. The engineers who were busy updating the calculator and adding the new Time Machine backup feature have been reassigned to the iPhone instead.
The iPhone will run a modified version of OS X, which itself based on Unix. Apple is finding out the hard way that an operating system that has a 40-year history running servers and desktop systems isn’t an ideal fit for a mobile phone.
A half second wait time is fine on a computer, but if you press the "hang up" button on a phone, you want it to respond instantaneously. Just ask Windows Mobile users if that is available from Redmond, and they'll instantly tell you that it isn't. Several Linux vendors also have been working for years to fine-tune the open source operating system to run on mobile devices. While they claim to be making progress, we're still waiting for the first real device.
And than Apple isn't just building a Unix based mobile phone. It is aiming to redefine the smart phone category. Today it admitted that it bit off a bit more than it could chew, luckily is seems to be just a small bit.
There is no running away from the iPhone monster
April 12, 2007 at 11:35 PM | Permalink
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