--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> 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? >
Actually, the iPhone may be running on an ARM processor, so it COULD be Linux under the hood, but would imply that Apple has ported a substantial portion of the MacOS X stuff to a non-FreeBSD kernel.
