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A classic! My favorite part: "unless the cell phone were actually running Mac OS X, which definitely is impossible" Technically, the iPhone does not run Mac O

• kevingadd 17y ago
  Given that he said that in 2002 and the first iPhone came out in 2007, one could argue that he was right at the time. The first-gen iPhone experience (especially with the release version of the OS) was sluggish enough that one could argue that it was still close to impossible. "Impossible" was probably a bad wprd choice, though, since technology has ways of proving us wrong. :)
• lurch_mojoff 17y ago
  Hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to poke fun of Gruber now, but back in 2002 Macs, "beefy" two-processor desktop machines, were barely running OS X. I mean, the new Mac OS X mentioned in the post was Jaguar. Do you remember the awesome speed of that bad boy?
• ZachPruckowski 17y ago
  Yes, but that's only because 2007's iPhones literally had the processing power of 2002's computers, and they were pretty slow at running a stripped down OS X. Not to mention that OS X got significantly faster between 2002 and 2007. On the same hardware, 10.5 (what the iPhone's OS is a branch of) would be a good bit faster than the version 10.1 that was available when Gruber wrote his article. And let's not forget that the article was written back in the days before flash-based iPods, so the only way to get storage on it was via hard-drive. I mean, we're talking back in the day before iPods had USB connectors, and 2 years before the iPod Photo