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Hear that? What that could mean? Honestly, we’ve no idea, but we do know Apple has a job posting for a position that could help the company do just that. Here’s an excerpt from the post:
The Core Platform team within Apple’s Core OS organization is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms. The team is responsible for low level platform architecture, firmware, core drivers and bring-up of new hardware platforms. The team consists of talented engineers with experience in hardware, firmware, IOKit drivers, security and platform architecture.
This position requires a very technical and hands-on leader, experience in working closely with hardware team and a deep understanding of bare metal software. You must be a highly self-motivated individual who seeks to create a dynamic and creative team environment in which old problems are solved in new and innovative ways.
Before you go too crazy about the prospects of seeing other, non-Apple made devices running the iPhone OS, let me point few things:
- Apple is known for its everything-but-open policies. No other computer runs Mac OS, at least not officially. Likewise, I doubt any non-Apple product will run iPhone OS.
- What may happen is that they’ll use the iPhone OS for their other products such as Apple TV or some low-end computers (iPad with a keyboard?).
On the other hand, Cupertino folks may realize there’s more money to be made from the OS itself and licensing, though that’s kinda weird assumption since we all know Steve loves (making) beautiful objects… Any thoughts?
[Via: Mashable]
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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