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iPods Don't Run OS X

Posted by kdawson on from the all-you-need-is-an-undocumented-ls-option dept.

Redrum writes "Everyone thinks that Apple's iPod runs an OS called Pixo, and that the iPhone ushered in a brand new epoch based on OS X. That myth has been busted: the iPod runs Apple's own Mach/BSD kernel, and Pixo is only used as a graphics layer. Daniel Eran outlines the story behind Pixo and what OS X means for Apple. It's no joke; the story was confirmed by Tim Monroe, a member of Apple's QuickTime engineering team, as is easy to verify yourself." Update: 07/15 19:48 GMT by KD : Turns out to be an April Fools joke.

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  1. PLEASE HELP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:OS X != Darwin == OS X 1.0 (1A543a) by DrTime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My iPhone upon sync wants me to send a file to Apple containing the following information: Auto Submit = Yes Bug Type = 109 Process = Mobile Mail OS Version = OS X 1.0 (1A543a) SysInfoMachineConfigKey = iPhone1,1 SysInfoOSVersionKey = 1.0:aA543a I am no OS X expert, but, well yoiu decide what the iPhone is running. I had to truncate the file due the /. junk in the trunk detector going off.. Details (I hope Apple is right and there is no personal information in this: Process: MobileMail [31] Path: /Applications/MobileMail.app/MobileMail Version: N/A (N/A) Code Type: 0000000C (Native) Effective UID: 0 Parent Process: SpringBoard [15] Date/Time: 2007-07-15 06:13:12.693 -0400 OS Version: OS X 1.0 (1A543a) Report Version: 6 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0xe7ffe405 Crashed Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libobjc.A.dylib 1 Message 2 Message 3 Message 4 Message 5 Foundation 6 CoreFoundation 7 Foundation 8 Foundation 9 MobileMail 10 UIKit 11 CoreFoundation 12 CoreFoundation 13 CoreFoundation 14 CoreFoundation 15 GraphicsServices 16 UIKit 17 UIKit 18 UIKit 19 MobileMail 20 MobileMail Thread 1: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 1 libSystem.B.dylib 2 GraphicsServices 3 libSystem.B.dylib Thread 2: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 1 libSystem.B.dylib 2 CoreFoundation 3 CoreFoundation 4 WebCore 5 libSystem.B.dylib Thread 3: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 1 libSystem.B.dylib 2 libSystem.B.dylib Thread 4: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 1 libSystem.B.dylib 2 CoreFoundation 3 libSystem.B.dylib got tired of snipping here.

  3. Hi, I'm new here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What the fuck are all of you talking about??!