" (2) a substantiated look at how the iPhone is indeed running OS X (contrary to reports that it isn't), and (3) what it means to users and developers, and how ARM is involved, in Mac OS X, ARM, and iPod OS X, and why the supposedly 'closed' system Apple describes for the iPhone won't preclude third party development."
"Ihnatko and Apple's insistence that the device is running OS X contradicts suggestions that, to be blunt, it is not, as a post on tech site Slashdot explains."
There are conflicting rumors, with comments coming from Chicago Sun-Times columnist Andy Ihnatko suggesting iPhone does indeed run Leopard - pared down and ported to ARM - for shared code base and to take advantage of Core Animation. When a developer SDK is released it would make sense to have cross-compatibilty, and multitouch functionality as a Leopard module would make a complementary match.
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed! -- See pics here on the parent post ...
Front and side, concept multitouch iMac mockup.
Perceptive Pixel demo by Jeff Han, TED talk, research homepage. Fingerworks, purchased by Apple, 2005.
... much more on the iPhone codebase here.
To the original point, whenceforth multitouch Apple hardware?
There are conflicting rumors, with comments coming from Chicago Sun-Times columnist Andy Ihnatko suggesting iPhone does indeed run Leopard - pared down and ported to ARM - for shared code base and to take advantage of Core Animation. When a developer SDK is released it would make sense to have cross-compatibilty, and multitouch functionality as a Leopard module would make a complementary match.
What about multitouch? -- It's already incorporated into the iPhone interface,
and the iPhone is running Leopard