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Agreed. The claim that "the iPhone runs Mac OS X" was far more true than many marketing claims in the technology sector. In the context that the claim was made,
by simondotau 5y ago
Agreed. The claim that "the iPhone runs Mac OS X" was far more true than many marketing claims in the technology sector. In the context that the claim was made, it was certainly not a lie. At minimum it is accurate to describe iPhoneOS 1.0 as a fork of Mac OS X.
- simonh 5y agoNot only that, but Steve even clarified exactly what he meant by “runs OSX” in the presentation with a big list of features the iPhone got from it. Multitasking, networking, power management, etc, etc. Funnily enough binary compatible hardware drivers weren’t on the list.
- tinus_hn 5y agoEspecially when compared to the competition phones that ran kernels that were only used in the embedded world