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Old 06-12-2008, 07:57 PM
Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by mgartner View Post
Except the UI layer (which is Cocoa Touch) the iPhone runs nearly the same OSX version as a common MacOS Desktop machine. This is not a stripped down version of OSX.
I'm not an expert on the iPhone, but surely they slimmed it down - how big is an install of OS X normally? And it's not an x86 CPU in the iPhone, so it's compiled differently, right? For ARM? I think when you say "it's really OS X" people will think they can install OS X apps on it...
 
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