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Secret Apple project worked to port Mac OS X to iPad-style ARM processors

By , Monday, Feb 6, 2012
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In 2010, Apple’s Platform Technologies Group (a subdivision of the CoreOS department) spent some working on a previously-embargoed project to port the Mac OS X Darwin kernel to the ARMv5 chipset architecture — the same family of chipsets that currently powers iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.

Here’s a snippet from the project Porting Darwin to the MV88F6281, subtitled ARMing the Snow Leopard:

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Mac OS X Lion 7.2 with iCloud support now available

By , Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011
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To coincide with iOS 5, Apple today has released Mac OS X Lion 7.2 which plugs Apple’s desktop OS into the same iCloud that just started powering mobile. If

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Daily Tip: How to find the UDID or serial number of an iPad, iPhone

By , Monday, Aug 15, 2011
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Trying to figure out where to find the UDID or serial number of your iPad, iPod touch, or iPhone? There are many reasons you may need to look up your

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Iterate 3: Prototypes

By , Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011
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Marc, Seth, and Rene iterate through Apple’s OS X Lion, Microsoft’s Windows 8 preview, HP’s webOS 3.0 TouchPad UI, discuss text in

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Apple’s layered user experience approach

By , Thursday, Jul 21, 2011
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Apple implements an interesting layered user experience in both iOS and OS X. They’ve always done this to some degree; early on with Mac OS X, UNIX gurus could live

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Mac OS X Lion is here!

By , Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011
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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is here. OS X, the desktop counterpart to Apple’s mobile iOS, has taken iPad innovation “Back to the Mac” with this release, including

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Apple seeds OS X 10.7 Lion GM. Desktop down, mobile to go!

By , Friday, Jul 1, 2011
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Apple has just seeded the Gold Master (GM) candidate for OS X 10.7 Lion to developers. That’s the desktop jab, scheduled to land this month, that Apple is using to

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Apple holding “Back to the Mac” event October 20

By , Wednesday, Oct 13, 2010
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Looks like Apple will be holding an event in October again, this time called “Back to the Mac” and no doubt focusing on — OS X 10.7 Lion?! — new

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The Competition: RIM to Release BlackBerry Desktop Manager… for Mac?!

By , Monday, Jul 20, 2009
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Via CrackBerry.com:

RIM has officially announced that BlackBerry Desktop Manager software for MAC will be available this September. THANK YOU RIM. You can visit blackberry.com/mac to sign up for

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iPhone Dev-Team: Mac OS X 10.5.7 Safe for Jailbreak, Fixes DFU Bug

By , Thursday, May 14, 2009
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Good news for Mac OS X-based Jailbreakers! After having to resort to using powered USB hubs or patching in older versions of files to work around a bug in 10.5.6

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