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Originally Posted by pilotbob
When did I say Firefox was an OS? I think you misread my post. When you asked what app I would run on the OS I said Firefox.
You are really telling me stuff I already know. I have been a developer for over 20 years.
And there you hit the nail on the Head... "Apple Vetoed". If this had a "real" OS that wasn't locked down and you could load and run your own apps without going through the "app store" I would consider it a real or full blown OS.
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well. if you've been a developer for over 20 years you'd know it is a "real" operating system, locked down or not. it runs a "real" kernel, provides "real" services to applications and has "real" system libraries. the operating system does exactly what apple wants it to, and more if you jailbreak it.
btw, if you want to toss around street cred, i've got over 30 years in the IT industry including my development on my first unix systems in 1978 (which OS X and the iPhone of today based), before that CP/M.
charleski is right, apple markets this as an appliance to consumers who just want something to work, not to tinker with and that probably fits a few million people. apple will happily take their money and the users will happily use their new ipads.