Comments on: What Mac OS X Snow Leopard Means for the Future of the iPhone

By: Garry Dicioccio

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By: Mathew Slick

Mathew Slick — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:41:38 +0000

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By: iPhone India

iPhone India — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:07:23 +0000

Will iPhone OS get 64 bit ever ??

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:50:57 +0000

I can't wait for an Apple branded iChat app. Video chats over wifi would be awesome on the iPhone. I'm really hoping that the delay for this app is because they want to intigrate it with video calling over 3G. Now that would be a great app!

By: ajlp09

ajlp09 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:10:59 +0000

iphone is os x...simply put...it is its own version of os x and shares everything...like core animation, core audio, to cocoa and multitasking (native apps only of course), but none-the-less...it is the "mobile" version of Mac OS X

By: smchrist2

smchrist2 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:20:26 +0000

I wonder what Mac OS 11's gonna be like. I think it'll be only 3-5 years till 11. Right after 10.8 lion. 11's would be great with 128 bit OLED screen, stunning graphics at huge resolution.... Ahhhh....

Who knows? The world could blow up tmrw.

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:54:08 +0000

for the first time focus wasn�t on fabulous new consumer-facing features, but on internal re-architecting

This is not the first time. Tiger for Intel had the same approach. If you call Tiger for Intel "Snow Tiger" you get the picture. In Tiger for Intel the core OS was upgraded to deal with new hardware (Intel architecture, Rosetta, EFI, the new disk partitioning format) and there were even fewer consumer-facing features, they specifically left the UI almost exactly the same. Boot Camp was not even included, that is a Leopard feature.

Although Tiger for Intel did not get its own version number, whenever Apple talks about Tiger for Intel they show it as a separate release between Tiger PowerPC and Leopard.

Possibly 10.1 could be put in this category, too, which was a free release for 10.0 users that came out only 6 months later.

while we�d LOVE a way to access the iPhone file-system, doesn�t yet seem to be in Apple�s roadmap.

I have no idea why you would want to see the file system on the iPhone. Even on the Mac you are not seeing most of the file system in the Finder. But if you want a "Finder" for your iPhone, the closest thing I've seen is Air Sharing. You can browse and view the files you store within Air Sharing itself in a very Mac-like manner, and you can mount Air Sharing's file store as a WebDAV disk on your Mac so you can put files on or take them off. You can also access other servers through Air Sharing, such as an iDisk, and the file viewer is better than in the iDisk app. It really feels like turning your iPhone into a little Mac file server.

By: Kevin Watson

Kevin Watson — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:06:35 +0000

I hope Apple comes us with a new consistent UI for the next Mac OS X. It's borrowing a lot from the iPhone, whilst keeping the Aqua elements and mixing it up with a few new bits it built exclusively for iLife and iWork.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:24:56 +0000

@Mike You are actually quite wrong, the core of the iPhone OS is OSX. Its true. It is OSX. The only thing that makes it different from the desktop version is what you see on top: the GUI. That is different, but everything inside (Core animation, cocoa, graphics, security) Everything that OSX has just with a new GUI on top to fit a mobile device.

By: Nelton

Nelton — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:22:18 +0000

my bad... I should have wrote OS X for iPhone... not Mac OS X for iphone...

By: Nelton

Nelton — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:21:11 +0000

@Mike... you are right... but remember... both are based on Darwin... and Apple it self usually refers to iPhone OS as Mac OS X for iPhone... From the user interface stand point they are different... iPhone uses Cocoa Touch and Mac OS X uses Aqua... from the Kernel stand point... same... Hybrid... etc, etc, etc.... oh well it's an honest mistake...

By: Klaus @ TechPatio

Klaus @ TechPatio — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:15:37 +0000

@ Mike, well, when they introduced the iPhone, they did say it was "OS X" (not full blown OS X of course), but something like that.

Never the less, I'd love to see Apple add stacks to the iPhone, just as one or two of the 4 "dock" apps on the iPhone, would be cool if they could expand and show 4-6 more apps.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:02:11 +0000

There is no "iPhone version of OS X" and it pains me to see an iPhone-centric blog make such a massive mistake. iPhone OS is in no way OS X. Yes, they share features like a Quicktime media layer, but they are totally different OSes.

By: Jersagfast

Jersagfast — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:30:59 +0000

Here is one they didn't mention. Battery icon tells you if your battery is healthy, average, week, or just downright not functioning as it should. I'm sure just one of the many with typical Apple style under promise, over deliver. Very impressed to say the least.