Apple hopes to get iPhone OS aboard new gadgets

on 02/23/2010 01:07 PDT

Apple seems to have big plans for their iPhone OS, where the company hopes to see this operating system make its way to a wide range of gadgets, devices and platforms. This is derived from a job posting from Apple that points toward an engineering manager to handle “platform bring-up”, and this person is able “to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms.” What do you think of Apple’s endeavors to proliferate the iPhone OS across all platforms?

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iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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