--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sparaig wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> 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. >
How's that GPL for value-added stuff linked to the libraries? > 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. > So you think it's really Linux even though Jobs explicitly claimed it was MacOS X?
