(keitai-l) Re: iPhone comments

From: Brian Topping <topping_at_orb.org>
Date: 01/10/07
Message-Id: <195000F0-60EF-4839-A00A-4AEDE8649F30@orb.org>
On Jan 9, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Kyle Barrow wrote:

>
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 09:30, Brian Topping wrote:
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>> The only concern I had at the display was when I asked "So this is
>> running OS-X, can I create apps for it with XCode?"  The response I
>> got came after a noticeable pause and visible discomfort on the part
>> of the Apple guy standing the booth.  He basically said "there may be
>> opportunities for that and the information will be posted to the
>> developer website when it is available."
>
> The iPhone is most likely running a very much stripped down and
> modified version of OS X on an as yet, unspecified processor so XCode
> apps are unlikely to ever be able to run unless Apple release an
> XCode update to support it.

That goes without saying.  But saying it "runs OS-X" is a key  
positioning statement.  If there was any thought put to this in  
Cupertino, and I'm sure there was, it implies that the rest of the  
tools are going to be updated to support it accordingly.

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>> It wasn't what he said, it was how he said it.  He was clearly
>> briefed on what to say and his delivery said to me that they were not
>> at all confident that the options we developers were going to get
>> were going to be at all well-received.  It felt like he was bracing
>> for a storm.
>
> Think widgets as applications.

I could, but I won't :-)

Brian

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Received on Wed Jan 10 03:28:20 2007