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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Actually, iOS is not OS X, nor any other flavor of Unix. Although Apple is happily attempting to scale up iOS to tablets (and presumably other devices), I doubt it will have either the flexibility or the longevity of OS X; as more powerful processors become more widespread in small devices, limited operating systems like iOS will lose out as users clamor for true multitasking and full-blown application software (rather than lots and lots of miniscule apps).
You started wrong, but finished strong. Go look at the iOS API's and header files. It's OS X with #defines, some missing libraries and some added libraries. UI aside, it's easy to port to iOS... 'cause it's UNIX.
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