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My guess is the tablet will run Touch OS 4 and the 4th generation iPone/Touch will inherit most of the new features as well. A multi-tasking UI, Expose, widgets
by jsz0 17y ago
My guess is the tablet will run Touch OS 4 and the 4th generation iPone/Touch will inherit most of the new features as well. A multi-tasking UI, Expose, widgets. All would be welcome additions to the iPhone. You've already got the concept of a Dock so extending it to be a multi-tasking UI seems obvious. The iPhone would benefit from a user home directory that was accessible between all applications. If we have an E-Reader app for books, magazines, catalogs, etc it seems like they would extend this to the iPhone/Touch as well offering content formatted for the smaller screen seamlessly. The only area of difference I can think of would be the need for a windowing system on a 10" display. It probably wouldn't make sense to limit developers only to full-screen applications with a higher resolution display. This might be a clever way to offer iPhone/Touch application compatibility to the tablet. Instead of restricting access to these apps, or automatically scaling them full-screen, why not just run them in a window?
- xsmasher 17y agoRumor has it that some iPhone app devs were asked to retool their apps to allow "full screen" use by removing any assumptions about screen size. That supports the idea that the tablet runs the iPhone OS, not OS X.