Re: Apple II E

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <46940a2d$0$31628$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>,
Linards Ticmanis  <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:

> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
>> I don't think there's any cell phone running some version of
>> Mac OS though
> 
> Been living under a rock lately? ;-)

Aaahh!  The iPhone, you're right!   However (quote from Wikipedia):

# Apple has confirmed that an optimized version of the Mac OS X
# operating system (without unnecessary components) runs on the iPhone,
# although differences between the operating system (OS X) running on
# Macs and the iPhone have not been officially explained.

Which means that if you try to run a Mac application on the iPhone,
it's likely to fail.  Doing so is similar to trying to run a regular
Windows application on a Windows-CE enabled phone: an application
failure will be the most probable result.

Anyway, I'll have to rephrase my claim to:

  I don't think there's any cell phone running some _documented_
  version of Mac OS though

This may of course change in the future.  Or it may not - only Apple
can decide whether they'll release documentation about the iPhone OS-X
or not....

But, more importantly: I don't think there's any non-Apple cell phone
running any version of Mac OS - and I don't think there will be any
such phone within the foreseeable future.  But there are several
non-Microsoft cell phones running Windows CE, and there are *many*
non-Sun cell phones running Java.  And I don't like monopolies....


Btw, in my part of the world, the iPhone doesn't really exist except
as some expensive vision of the future.  I can't buy any iPhone here.
And even if I flew over to "the States", bought an iPhone and then
flew back (yes, a few - very few, but still some - swedish Apple
zealots has actually done that), I wouldn't be able to pop in a SIM
card and then use the iPhone as a phone.... current iPhones can only
be used with AT&T as your phone operator, I've heard.  That will of
course change too, but we're not there yet.

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