Thread: iPhone and iPod Touch SDK is amazing... Wow.
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2008-03-07 , 16:38
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Originally Posted by sherifnix View Post
Apple took the time to build a proper platform with no video tearing, 3d drivers, awesome scaling webkit engine, PIM syncing, email that works and now an incredible sdk with big name developers. And this is all in ONE year, not three.
That's not true.
Everything they have on the iPhone comes from Mac OS X.
They simply just had to fix some issues related to the "embedded" word (better power manager, touch input and so on).
But everything else comes from Mac OS X.
And they are working on Mac OS X more than Nokia on Linux+GTK.
Moreover, they are for sure working, internally, on the iPhone a lot more earlier than one year.
Like they did for Mac OS X on Intel. They said, later, that they were working on it since 2000.
Last, Cocoa stems from Carbon. Carbon comes from NeXT (still Steve, but running a darker company).
Last edited by anidel; 2008-03-07 at 16:39. Reason: typo