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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
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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Just to slightly correct you Jason (I'm no Mac OS X system guru) but the Mac OS X is readily available for PPC architecture and x86, how much difficult is it to rebuild their system for the iPhone? I don't know the details but their engineers are very smart with making a flexible framework. Think of how small you can have Darwin (OS X's baseline) and it is actually possible.
And I do agree with your last statement that it can confuse people but if you're familiar with the concept of Universal apps you'd have to rethink in just saying you can install any Mac app to any Mac OS X system without first asking if that specific app is built for it, say a PPC Mac or an Intel Mac.
It's been quite a while since I switched to a Mac but was still hoping to keep using a WM after a year or two. I'd say that Apple's strategies are quite infectious and I'm sold to their services particularly with MobileMe. One word always comes to mind - "convenience".