Now that Apple has unveiled the iPad, people are wondering what the future holds for the iPhone OS platform and the concepts behind it. The iPad comes scarily close to being an actual computer in the more classical sense of the word, and a recent Apple job posting seems to indicated the Cupertino giant is interested in further moving the iPhone OS up the ladder. We ask you: would you be put off or excited about the iPhone OS' restrictive model moving up the stack?
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Member since:2005-07-18
It's not just a yes or no question. It's a job offering from Apple, for who know what they're planning, brought here to us by Thom, who presents it as a "OSNews asking thing, embedding his Apple hatred in the text. He could have said "Who would like an easy to use laptop", or even better kept it neutral with "An iPhone OS laptop".
The answer is pretty simple now, most sane people would answer no to this question. But what are we talking about? A laptop running the iPhone OS? There is no such thing, not in real life, not announced, not even as a rumor. And if there would be one, just don't buy it if you don't like it.
I'd also like to say something about the "restrictive" iPhone (OS). It's a bloody consumer device. I have loads of consumer stuff at home and most don't have a SDK or allow me to install loads of stuff, unlike my iPhone. I don't complain about that, just like I don't complain that the OSNews site is "restrictive" because I can't wipe the user database and upload my own or change the ads.
My Macs are made by Apple too, yet they're not "restricted" like the iPhone is, because it wouldn't make sense.
Should Apple come with some sort of laptop running some kind of iPhone OS flavor there might be a market for it. If you don't like it, buy a Dell with Windows or install Linux.
Thom keeps suggesting the world is taken over and then destroyed by Apple and somehow we are all forced to use Apple products.
This is just not true. I can ditch my iMac anytime and switch to Linux or put the SIM card of my iPhone in another phone. There are plenty of other options you can chose from.
Member since:2005-06-29
Truth hurts, no?
The question is simple: would you buy a laptop with an OS as locked down and restrictive as the iPhone OS? This is a perfectly valid question, and is perfectly in line with how Apple and its fans present the iPhone. The restrictiveness of the iPhone is marketed as a selling point by Apple, so why, when *I* use it, I'm suddenly being anti-Apple? Does this imply Apple is anti-Apple for using the exact same selling point?
Member since:2008-06-02
Only when it's applied to a company whose fans are mostly pseudo-intellectuals hipsters with serious delusions of persecution. Those martyrdom complexes don't feed themselves, you know.
Apple fanboys are so intellectually-insecure that they are simply incapable of recognizing that there are valid reasons to criticize Apple and their products. No, to them, anyone who criticizes Apple must be "embedding his Apple hatred in the text."
These are people who are so completely removed from reality that they will actually compare mockery of Mac users to racism or even the holocaust.
Official Apple statement on PRISM and privacy: "Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it." This is basically Apple re-publishing their earlier statement in a more official manner. You either believe it, or you don't.
The open source Contiki operating system and its commercial Thingsquare distribution are making strides towards the connected home. According to a Computerworld article, a new LED light bulb manufacturer is putting small computers into their light bulbs. Each computer runs the Contiki OS, which gives each bulb an IP address and allows them to be controlled with a smartphone application. To connect the bulbs to the application, the bulbs use both Wi-Fi and the much lower power IEEE 802.15.4 mesh technology.
"Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The legal filing, which cites the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech, is the latest move by the California-based tech giant to protect its reputation in the aftermath of news reports about sweeping National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic." Draining the ditch after the cow has drowned in it."I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of ten seconds, or more, just to rotate the display; touches refusing to acknowledged; stuttering notification panel actions; and unresponsive apps." Fully and utterly agreed. My Nexus 7 was blazing-fast and awesome for a few months, and at some point, it just started sucking. Just like that. I've tried loads of ROMs, and nothing helps.A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)"."The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity - jungles, archipelagos, mountains. There are also major cost challenges. Right now, for example, in most of the countries in the southern hemisphere, the cost of an Internet connection is more than a month's income. Solving these problems isn't simply a question of time: it requires looking at the problem of access from new angles. So today we're unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x]: balloon-powered Internet access." Insane.
"MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything more complex than a 'Hello World' bootloader before, I decided I wanted to learn about writing my own kernel code at the same time. Note that the goal of this project was not to write highly efficient hand-optimized assembly code, but rather to have fun and write code that balances readability and speed. This is primarily accomplished by proper commenting and consistent code structuring." Just cool.
Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm: "Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste. Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don't get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders decide that. If we had known they were just going to shut it down and never really give it a chance to flourish, what would have been the point of selling the company? I think the deal we had with Verizon really hurt us, but who knew that at the time? These things are all hindsight.""And so it is with Dell's Alienware X51 R2, a small form factor gaming PC in console digs. It's shaped similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Slim, and though it's slightly larger than either a 360 or PlayStation 3, the X51 R2 would be right at home in a living room setting nestled next to a large screen TV. Indeed, it's adept at running Steam's Big Picture mode, and if your primary objective is to play games in the living room, go ahead and consider the X51 R2 a hybrid game console." This is obviously not the only machine like this - still, these are very valid console alternatives even for those that don't like being hunched over with a cramped WASD-claw. Also, PC gamers among us: could you get away with the $699 model for gaming?
From Bloomberg: "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes." The lid has officially been blown off.
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2006-04-18
Since when is voting "yes" or "no" on a hypothetical bashing?