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]