Apple Patent Points To iMac Touch Running OS X and iOS 239
siliconbits noted an interesting little tale of a recently surfaced Apple Patent covering an iMac Touch with a flex base that switches from iOS to OS X based on orientation. There's some interesting food for thought in there ... I can't decide if I like the idea or not.
Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:2, Insightful)
This is what it has looked like for a long time. iOS is on their every other line of devices and the walled garden apps economy is a significant money maker for Apple. Combine that with the recent patent of remotely detecting and disabling jailbroken iPhones [slashdot.org] and I think Apple really wants to control the whole area, and obviously wants more and more money. Say goodbye to hobbyists or hackers, and just imagine if Microsoft did the same.
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:0, Insightful)
Which sockpuppet will be used to troll this thread?
Well, at least we got a quick answer to that question.
i guess apple hasn't learned from MS and IBM (Score:3, Insightful)
Apple trying to dumb down the computer and to vertically integrate the entire experience to lock everyone in will probably fail. Right about at the peak of Microsoft's power is when the company saw they had to support other technologies. IBM's peak in the mainframe age vanished when PC's came along and freed people from the tyranny of the mainframe.
i like my iphone and think it's the right experience for a mobile device, but not the computer.
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple is not going to kill the desktop OS that is required to write applications for their mobile OS.. Steve Jobs isn't stupid, he knows that people aren't going to be coding 3D games or run photoshop or whatever on iOS. Killing OSX would kill iOS, and Apple knows that.
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:5, Insightful)
Good point. We're talking about a guy who started Apple (and then later came back and basically saved it), turned Pixar from a small company into a movie powerhouse, and has been involved in basically reinventing the music industry, the cellphone industry, and maybe the tablet computer market. Sounds like a textbook case of stupidity.
Re:iMac running iOS (Score:2, Insightful)
Nothing in this patent application says they're doing anything. It's a patent application, not a business plan.
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:i guess apple hasn't learned from MS and IBM (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't know if the AC meant what I understood, but he has a point.
Steve Jobs does not succeed by lack of stupidity. Some of the stuff he pulled seemed pretty stupid before he did it, and some of it was.
A phone without keys seems pretty stupid to me. I think it's stupid, still. That doesn't stop him from making money from a phone without keys.
Seeing how stupid others are is easy, it doesn't take talent. Making money in spite of intelligent people thinking you are stupid, it does take talent.
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:1, Insightful)
Spoke like a true member of the Jobs Cult.
Tables have been around for 20 years, smartphones around a long time before apple jumped on the bandwagon, portable music players have been around for a very long time, way before Apple would even acknowledge music existed. Pixar's success is nothing to do with Jobs, it's their movies. Are that deluded you think you gay leader sits down a writes movie scripts and story boards too?
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:5, Insightful)
If there is any company that is driven from the CEO down it's Apple. So while you're right that the he of course didn't do it by himself, he is likely a huge driving force behind what the rest of the company accomplished.
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:3, Insightful)
On the other hand, they might try a tactic of only supporting Mac OS X on their most expensive workstations, and shipping lower end computers with only iOS.
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:3, Insightful)
Apple has been doing this before iOS
few years ago you has OS X, Apple TV and Time Machine. only thing now is that Apple seems to be going to iOS which has more lock in and runs on ARM CPU's so that they can control the entire hardware and software experience. people have run OS X on non-apple hardware but not iOS
since apple is a hardware company they are trying to sell you 20 devices each with the same OS but gimped software that is dumbed down for a few tasks. instead of general purpose software like OS X
Re:Like it or not (Score:3, Insightful)
I think that the evolution of iOS will follow a similar path as the desktop MacOS did. More and more capabilities will be added, the interface designers will come up with satisfactory ways to accomplish more tasks, and consumers will build their touch-interface "skillset", allowing more more complicated interactions, and eventually more complicated applications.
Despite all the talk about "intuitive" interfaces, that won't actually get you very far, everything is learned. What's important is some consistency and a gentler learning curve. I think that Apple is aware of this, and is very deliberate as to increase the capability of iOS without making it intimidating to a new user.
iPad + Time Capsule (Score:3, Insightful)
I definitely thought Apple was going to make a combination touch screen iMac and Cisco router.
I wouldn't put a touch screen router beyond Apple, seeing as how Apple did popularize 802.11b with AirPort. Imagine a Time Capsule with a built-in iPad.
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:4, Insightful)
Leaders are generally given credit for accomplishments. Napoleon didn't personally conquer northern Italy.
Re:Steve said... (Score:5, Insightful)
Exactly. I love my iMac at work. I particularly love the full power of my unix shell, sudo, the ability to install unix and linux libraries, and all while having a pretty slick UI that (practically) always works quite well. It's not perfect, but it works better than any linux or windows machine I've ever worked with.
But the moment Apple starts closing stuff down, I'm out of here.
Re:Apple slowly replacing OS X with iOS (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, most of the thousands of employees at Apple who were there during 1997-2000 were also there 1994-1997. To what do you attribute Apple's astounding turnaround?