In article <140620082241206569%roger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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roger <roger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <stevewjackson-26C184.09212313062008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Steve W. Jackson <stevewjackson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > In article <130620080127233736%roger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > roger <roger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been only into Macs (with my iMac) for a really short time now,
> > > but I thought an iPhone could run almost any Mac application that a
> > > desktop Mac could run (within reason that is), So why can't the new
> > > iPhone run iChat?
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > And where exactly did you get this mistaken impression?
>
> Mac Evangelicals, that's where. Some upperclassmen in my dorm were
> telling me that the iPhone was more like a computer than a telephone,
> and that it will be able to do things that we can't even imagine right
> now. They told me that the iPhones' guts is going to be just like a
> Cray was back when it was drooled over. And yeah, the apps might have
> to be cut down a little, but it'll still be able to do the same kind of
> stuff - like a phonograph turned into an iPod. So you're telling me
> they're full of B.S?
I'm as big a sup****ter of and believer in Macs as anyone...and don't
have the first idea what might constitute a "Mac Evangelical".
The iPhone *is* a computer. It has an ARM processor and it does run a
specialized version of OS X. So in that sense, it could eventually run
a great many things it doesn't currently. But everything has a price in
power requirements and battery consumption, so it's not reasonable to
*ever* expect it to run just any old app you can think of. That's why
Apple has chosen to place restrictions on the kinds of applications they
will officially sup****t. But, as the existing iPhone's users have
demonstrated with jailbreaking, etc., there are sure to be others that
Apple doesn't condone which may exact heavy tolls on the battery and
provide features some will find useful.
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
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