iphone os

dabackwoodboy · #1 (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 09:47 PM

ok we all know how getting android on our wm phones has been a big thing for a while now. and some of our best are working to bring us andriod. now we also know that many people seem to love to put iphone themes on there phones also.(no im not one of those ppl) so if we can port andriod any ever wounder why we cant or why nobody seems to try to port the iphone os over to phones.

please dont make this a flame thread because we all know how many of u seem to hate the iphone but thats not where this is going. i just think that this would be yet another thing to throw in all the apple fan boys face. so please no arguing.

dabackwoodboy · #2 (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 10:11 PM

no one has any thing to say hummm i thought this would be a good topic

**Dr.8820** · #3 (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 10:20 PM

maybe this story will relate.my wife has an instinct.i have my retired vogue.she complained about her internet(ha!)being slow and not being able to aceess certain sites.i told her to take the 6900.she likes the instinct and declines.i know the 6900 is better.you know it's better.that's the iphone people.we can jack their stuff and add it to ours and they can't get ours but swear they have "the phone".it's like we have ss trailblazers and they have a 4 cylinder passport.

dabackwoodboy · #4 (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by mr8820

maybe this story will relate.my wife has an instinct.i have my retired vogue.she complained about her internet(ha!)being slow and not being able to aceess certain sites.i told her to take the 6900.she likes the instinct and declines.i know the 6900 is better.you know it's better.that's the iphone people.we can jack their stuff and add it to ours and they can't get ours but swear they have "the phone".it's like we have ss trailblazers and they have a 4 cylinder passport.

exactly so why cant we take yet another thing from them

**TurboFool** · #5 (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 10:24 PM

Completely impossible.

Android is an open-source operating system. Its source code is readily available, it's freely-distributed, and it's designed for a wide variety of hardware, including and especially the type of processor our phones use. As well, the primary maker of this hardware at the moment is HTC, making it more likely that the drivers necessary to run the hardware can be ported to our HTC devices.

The iPhone OS is closed-source, known only to Apple, and built ONLY for a very specific hardware set that bares absolutely no resemblance to our hardware, both from an aesthetic sense and from a technical sense (completely different type of processor, completely different touchscreen technology, etc.). It wasn't designed to be compatible with differing technologies, it was designed to be compatible with one, and only one, set of hardware.

Until Apple pulls a shocking twist and changes the internal hardware on the iPhone to the same chipsets used by our phone (far less likely than it was when they went from PowerPC to x86 on their PCs), we will NEVER see the iPhone OS ported to our phones.

bigben · #6 (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 10:29 PM

It's not so much the interface as it is the responsiveness.

Forget Apple vs WM - I've owned both and won't beat that issue either.

Not sure how many Iphone users have taken the time to really use a WM Touch Pro or for that matter how many WM users have really used an Iphone.

I provide user support for both of these for my company. Gotten lots of time on both. The easiest device to support is the Iphone. Without jail breaking the Iphones, it is fairly well locked down.

Once you jail break an Iphone you can begin to modify it similar to the WM phones. The WM phones don't have some of the inherent limitations of the Iphone. What the Iphone DOES have is responsiveness!!!

If we could get TF3D to be as responsive as the Iphone, for my money, the WM is the better device. If the method to get this responsiveness is Android, I'll do what I can to support the port.

Just a footnote, Iphone users are a curious lot - feeling superior without being techocrats - just because of the slick UI. On the other hand, WM users feel superior because for the most part because they are very sophisticated technocrats. Both often miss the strengths of the other machine - too bad.

dabackwoodboy · #7 (**permalink**) 01-01-2009, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by TurboFool

Completely impossible.

Android is an open-source operating system. Its source code is readily available, it's freely-distributed, and it's designed for a wide variety of hardware, including and especially the type of processor our phones use. As well, the primary maker of this hardware at the moment is HTC, making it more likely that the drivers necessary to run the hardware can be ported to our HTC devices.

The iPhone OS is closed-source, known only to Apple, and built ONLY for a very specific hardware set that bares absolutely no resemblance to our hardware, both from an aesthetic sense and from a technical sense (completely different type of processor, completely different touchscreen technology, etc.). It wasn't designed to be compatible with differing technologies, it was designed to be compatible with one, and only one, set of hardware.

Until Apple pulls a shocking twist and changes the internal hardware on the iPhone to the same chipsets used by our phone (far less likely than it was when they went from PowerPC to x86 on their PCs), we will NEVER see the iPhone OS ported to our phones.

now why didnt i think about all that. thanx man. it kinda sucks. but o well