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iPods Don't Run OS X
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.
oh my gawd somebody give this guy a -2 dontfeedthetroll tag.
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
the FBI does not need any high tech stuff to get in to windows M$ just give them a backdoor
The article was not a joke, it was a presentation of OS X used in the iPhone.
It referenced the MacTech joke about SNOJOB, but that wasn't a central part of the story. It was presented among other jokes that hinted around the truth: that Pixo did not deliver Apple's iPod for it, that Apple has seven years of experience in delivering the ARM based iPod, and that Apple has delivered core portions of the iPod, as Pixo is not a kernel, but rather a UI framework.
Why Slashdot decided to present the 2004 article as the key message of the article, and why readers made a huge stink about tagging the article as a joke and then feigned their indignation about being joked, are all much more ridiculous than anything in the article itself.
If you'd prefer a simpler version of the article without any subtlety and written at a Digg level, there is this version:
The OS X iPod is the iPhone! Pixo, ARM, and the Mac OS