On Sunday 01 July 2007 09:11 pm, Scandals & Animals wrote:
> Won't the fact that it run OS X give it the ability to become
> a smart phone through any OS X PIM and calendar software?
Nope. There is some misconception that just because it claims
to run "OS X" means that all the application programming
interfaces ("APIs") from OS X have been carried into the iPhone.
It is _really_ unlikely that all the APIs are present. Even if
you consider that you can drop all the peripherals and printing
stuff you still have a processor- and RAM- constrained embedded
device. This isn't a 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo with at least .5GB
RAM ... it fits in your hand and runs on a battery.
Also, we are talking about a 320x480 screen with multi-touch and
I'm sure it is a non-trivial effort to visually re-scale
(re-engineer) the GUI on any OS X application. This is not a
simple "porting" job for any existing desktop/laptop
application. I don't have any numbers but I would say that half
today's applications are the GUI coding which would need to be
re-done.
As always, my $0.02,
Dave
