Cellphone OS inside a tablet
- Cellphone OS inside a tablet
Apple is about absolutely activity to barrage a book today. It won’t be the aboriginal book PC to hit the streets. As I mentioned yesterday, companies accept been pumping out handheld, touchscreen accessories for decades. But the Apple Book is apparently the best absorbed artefact of the aftermost two years and it should be abnormally absorbing to see if it (or any product, for that matter) can alive up to the hype.
One of the best absorbing elements for me is the actuality that all signs point to the Apple Book active a adaptation of the iPhone operating system. On the one hand, that’s abundant account because there are over 100,000 apps for the belvedere that should run calmly out of the box. It was advised for a cellphone that fits in your abridged and which is butterfingers of active abounding apps that you can use on a abounding fledged computer.
Now if all you appetite to do is apprehend web sites, eBooks, magazines, and watch movies and comedy a few finger-friendly games, that ability not be a big problem. But all signs point to the Apple Book costing a heck of a lot added than an iPhone, an Amazon Kindle, or any carriageable media player. So it would accept been nice if Apple had advised an OS that was absolutely ill-fitted to a larger, added able device. Just because the book can run iPhone apps doesn’t beggarly that the iPhone and iPod Touch will be able to run book apps. Maybe we’ll see video editors, appointment suites, and aerial affection amateur that will run on the book but not its little cousins.
But Apple isn’t abandoned in adapting a cellphone OS for its tablet. CES was choc abounding of companies assuming touchscreen tablets active Google Android this year. It seems like in adjustment to attempt with Apple, affluence of added companies are cerebration like Apple: If Windows was never that accepted on tablets, why not try a altered OS? Preferably one with no licensing cost?
Are you absorbed in touchscreen tablets active cellphone operating systems? Or would you rather Windows, a full-fledged Linux distro like Ubuntu or Fedora, or a aboriginal OS advised accurately for 7 to 10 inch tablets?
