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Except that the companies who use Symbian do *hate* Symbian. Not exactly a situation where anyone "hates" Symbian, secretly or otherwise, more a situation where certain platforms work out better for certain companies. People who have used the iPhone praise its responsiveness, so that's impressive by any standard. So the iPhone's adoption of MacOS X could be revolutionary, as the first phone with a no excuses, fully powered OS.
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Remember, Windows Mobile isn't really Windows it's a descendent of Windows CE, which was meant to be quite different from Windows itself.
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And is it likely that a 10gb install of MacOS X could be cut down to phone size? Sure - alternate language fonts alone take gigabites of that, and drivers and built in applications take the bulk of the rest. So is it likely that a 200mhz processor could give good performance on a phone? I would think it would be. Remember, MacOS X runs quite well a 400mhz PowerBook and an iPhone has a small fraction of its screen size. They just waited until phone processors and technologies caught up to the extent that MacOS X could run.
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Seem to me their decision would be pretty simple. They could build something super complex themselves that emulated these effects, or they could just use MacOS X. Just looking at the iPhone confirms that it uses something very similar to the Quartz transparency effects and built-in anti-aliasing in MacOS X. But I can sympathise somewhat because it seems pretty hard to find information about RIM's OS. I would have liked to see him discuss RIM, since RIM's phone and OS look to me like the best on the American market today other than the iPhone. So really, if you look at things impartially, or try to, his analysis seems sound. After all, simply looking at screenshots confirms that PalmOS is way behind the times, Windows Mobile has inherited Microsoft's ugly gene, and Symbian phones don't look particularly modern, either. I know RoughlyDrafted's author is very pro-Apple, but I don't think he's a liar. If you watch Steve Jobs' presentation, you will see that when they talk about using MacOS X, the slide behind him mentions several MacOS X technologies, including the very latest.īesides, why wouldn't they use MacOS X? If RoughlyDrafted's sources are to be believed, programming under Symbian would be a huge pain, Windows Mobile would look like a defeat and PalmOS is years behind the times. Though I will hope that they at least allow Java to be installed on the phones. You might be able to go under the radar and install uncertified stuff, but they won't support it. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they take the same approach as game console developers, where you have to get certified by them.
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Will they insist on controlling the access to third-party developers in the future? Maybe.
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Sure he had installed extra software, but the point is the average user does not make the difference between the phone crashing, or third-party software causing the phone to crash. I have a friend who had a Palm based phone and it would crash once in a while during a conversation. Heck, if you read the article you will see how some of the other phone companies are very careful of who they let write software for their systems. I believe keeping the phone a closed platform, at least in the short term, ensures that the phone is stable and people get used to the design philosphy. There are probably a large number of features of OS X that have been left out, but does this make it any less "OS X", than Windows CE is Windows? Maybe they exclusion of the 'Mac' in the "OS X" reference was a reference to the UI design, much in the way Microsoft differentiates Windows CE and Windows XP? (supersition on my part)
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Once the core OS has been ported, it doesn't take much more effort to port the essential frameworks. After all the core of MacOS X: Darwin, wouldn't take much more porting effort than Linux to an ARM architecture (assuming there was no hardware support previously). With everything I have read, I would tend to believe they have ported the system.