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I agree with the article. There are three choices for the Tablet: iPhone OS, Desktop OSX or a whole new variant. It makes no sense to me for Apple to expend e

by SamAtt 17y ago

I agree with the article. There are three choices for the Tablet: iPhone OS, Desktop OSX or a whole new variant. It makes no sense to me for Apple to expend effort on adapting a whole new OS and Desktop OSX just isn't suited for the tablet environment (which is why they had to adapt a new version for the iPhone in the first place) Also, does anyone really think Apple isn't looking at leveraging the app store's momentum for the tablet? Many of the tablet stories (most notably the WSJ) have even suggested Apple is actively courting iPhone developers to adapt their apps to the tablet. So again either they adapted a whole new OSX variant just for the tablet AND went to the effort of having it emulate the iPhone OS or they're just using the iPhone OS. Which one of those sounds more likely to you?

mortenjorck 17y ago
The article's concern over "mobile universal binaries" seems misplaced. I find highly dubious the idea of binary cross-compatibility between iPhone OS and the tablet OS. From form factor to hardware resources, they would constitute two different platforms. Most likely, XCode will have some affordances for sharing resources between an iPhone project and a tablet project.
mbreese 17y ago
Desktop OSX just isn't suited for the tablet environment I don't know about that. OS X has had an on-screen keyboard and "ink" capabilities built-in for quite a while. The hand writing recognition is pretty good. Unfortunately, without dedicated Apple hardware, application support has been little to none. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I will be disappointed if an Apple Tablet is released without stylus support. And I'm not sure if that is possible with the iPhone OS as-is (I'm just not that familiar with the SDK).
- pieter 17y ago
  I don't think the on-screen capabilites of OS X have ever been designed for (multi-)touch screens, but rather for tablet devices like the Wacom's.
  - aaronblohowiak 17y ago
    Right, but a cintiq that runs an OS would be pretty killer ;)

by SamAtt 17y ago

mortenjorck 17y ago

The article's concern over "mobile universal binaries" seems misplaced. I find highly dubious the idea of binary cross-compatibility between iPhone OS and the tablet OS. From form factor to hardware resources, they would constitute two different platforms. Most likely, XCode will have some affordances for sharing resources between an iPhone project and a tablet project.

mbreese 17y ago

Desktop OSX just isn't suited for the tablet environment I don't know about that. OS X has had an on-screen keyboard and "ink" capabilities built-in for quite a while. The hand writing recognition is pretty good. Unfortunately, without dedicated Apple hardware, application support has been little to none. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I will be disappointed if an Apple Tablet is released without stylus support. And I'm not sure if that is possible with the iPhone OS as-is (I'm just not that familiar with the SDK).

pieter 17y ago
I don't think the on-screen capabilites of OS X have ever been designed for (multi-)touch screens, but rather for tablet devices like the Wacom's.
- aaronblohowiak 17y ago
  Right, but a cintiq that runs an OS would be pretty killer ;)