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On my WOW…. Just WOW post earlier this week I talked about how Apple will be using their newly named OS in new products. So I would like to elaborate a bit more on this statement. 

The fact that Apple decided to rename the OS should not come as a surprise. All Apple is doing here is letting people know that iOS is not just a phone OS. iOS plus A4 means that Apple has the perfect platform to build new products with. Don’t be surprise to see a new version of the Apple TV using this mix of OS and chip.

As we know Apple likes to have control over Hardware as well as Software. This has always been the case with the Mac, and it will be the same now with their portable line of products. This is one of the negative aspects Google has going with their Android platform. There is just to much fragmentation of both the OS and hardware.

This lockdown of hardware and software is what enables Apple to work on features as opposed to spending to much time writing drivers and what not. It also means that Apple does not have to worry about compatibility with a huge arrays of hardware. As it stands right now Google has 30+ devices and most of them have very different hardware. This huge array of hardware means that Google has to build different version of Android OS, this also makes for a bloated distribution. In some cases manufacturers like HTC might even take longer to release a new version of the OS. This is mainly due to the extra customizations manufacturers might build in Android.  

A lot of people dislike the lockdown Apple has on their platforms, but the reality is that if it wasn’t for Apples way of doing things we would probably have just another windows mobile in our hands. Trust me the last thing we need now is another Windows mobile OS……

 

 

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