Mac OS X May Go Embedded?

VE3OGG writes "Apple Insider is reporting that Apple may very well be developing an embedded version of OSX. The report details what they believe will be the next step in Apple's future, which is extending its consumer electronics division. The first child of such a marriage between OSX and consumer electronic may be the oft-rumoured, not-yet-materialized iPhone — which it also asserts may well be released next fiscal quarter. It seems to be their opinion that with both the desktop and the phone running operating systems with similar underpinnings, 'expansive opportunities' would emerge."

Comments

iPhone?

[catbutt]

Are we still calling it now that Lynksys/Cisco has a product called that?

Re:Not bloody likely

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

This is the same embedded market where constrained resources make extra layering in the kernel a no-no and the aforementioned UI is irrelevant.

Indeed, but reading the article rather than the summary:

developing an operating system based on the core technologies of Mac OS X for use with embedded devices.

It could just be a pared down Aqua running on a different kernel (Linux, qnx, symbian, WinCE?).

Heck, a line that vague, could be describing just about anything.

Re:Not bloody likely

[ebichete]

It's not just that sentence that is vague, it's the whole article.

The article also reads like a press release, instead of the inside scoop AppleInsider would like us to believe it is.

I mean, who else but marketing would write:

industry leading integrated model and software advantage

So much verbiage, such little content.

nmap reports Airport Express to run OS X

[Thunderbear]

A while back I ran nmap against my Airport Express and it reported it to run OS X. It is most likely the embedded version of Darwin which they talk about here, then.