sparaig wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: >> >>> Steve Job's announced earlier today. >>> >>> >>> >>> The iPhone >>> >> Is it based on MacOS X like the Apple TV is, I wonder? THAT would be a >> scaleable product. >> > It's > >> basically a tablet PC/phone combo sans handwriting recognition, as far as I >> can tell. >> >> > > And yes it is. Apple's apparently now got a scalable MacOS X that works from > iPhones to > servers. More likely a form of Linux. They probably already have built a version of Linux that looks like the MacOS. They probably would have gone with Linux over Unix if SCO hadn't been scaring everyone. And they would have a lot more companies developing apps for the Mac too.
Many consumer electronics devices like this start out with a small implementation of Linux running a prototype. They may even ship this way and eventually everything is put into a chipset instead.
