Apple Job Posting Suggests Future iPhone OS Devices
Computerworld points to an Apple job listing posted last week which suggests that Apple is looking to expand the iPhone OS beyond the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad to additional platforms. The position, entitled "Engineering Manager (Platform Bring-Up)", requires that the employee lead a team of software engineers working with hardware and "custom silicon" teams on new platforms and protoypes.
The Core Platform team within Apple's Core OS organization is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms. The team is responsible for low level platform architecture, firmware, core drivers and bring-up of new hardware platforms. The team consists of talented engineers with experience in hardware, firmware, IOKit drivers, security and platform architecture.
The report suggests a number of products, both existing and merely envisioned, that could benefit from an ARM-based architecture and iPhone OS, including Apple TV, MacBook Air, enterprise-class Time Capsule micro-server offerings and others.Two years down the road, other low ends of the Apple Mac line might get eaten up by the Apple processor/iPhone OS. Mac Mini and Mac Book, I am looking directly at you. Once there is an iPhone OS running the TV and the MacBook Air segments, it isn't a great leap to expect to see it in low end Macs.
Obviously any such suggested offerings are based purely on speculation, but it seems clear that Apple is interested in leveraging iPhone OS and its hefty investment in ARM architecture for future products.Top Rated Comments
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It will be interesting to see what "new devices" emerge
OS X was the reason I switched, but I've come to believe that Apple is a hardware company that uses its OS to sell that hardware. An iPhone OS-centric approach wouldn't really shock me.
Micro-server? Not a bad idea, but I think Apple has pretty well staked out the markets it wants to participate in.
They're really going to have to rebrand that OS. Having "iPhone OS" on your TV just seems too goofy.
But I do hope Steve doesn't get totally bored with the professional market and OS X.
Obviously, the leading candidate for such a treatment is Apple TV. Apple TV would really take off if it were to benefit from an App store, though translating a touch interface to an HDTV may prove difficult unless this is accomplished through motion gesture recognition or some iPad/iPhone client.
It may also be the case that Apple may decide to enter the Microsoft Sync space and offer an automotive solution for which the iPhone OS seems almost ideally suited. In that case, app download would be discouraged in favor of tightly integrated apps using touch to control the vehicles functions and access media where appropriate.
They have to keep a full OS X version for the MacBook Air and Mac Mini. It would be utter stupid to offer the MacBook Air with iPhone OS. It might work for the iPad, but not for laptops and desktops.
Yes that's exactly what the Macbook Air needs... replace snow leopard with iPhone OS :rolleyes:
The value/capabilities of a MBP are already questionable. Replace OS X with iPhone OS? Ha!
I'm pretty darn sure that Apple won't do that.
this is not going to be good. see the iphone os on a macbook air or mac mini instead of an actual OS. The user configuration will be gone and Apple will lock everyone into iTunes and its App Store. This does not look promising.
That's why God made Microsoft... for everyone else :)
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