tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11279175.post-1168763802377813602007-01-14T00:32:00.000-08:002007-01-14T00:36:42.386-08:00A research company has reported that the main applications processor in the iPhone is made by Samsung. Samsung produces low-power PowerPC based chips for embedded applications (like the iPhone). Apple could easily run a stripped down version of a Darwin-based OS X on a PowerPC chip like that. It won't run as fast as a quad G5, but fast enough. And Apple is not required by their own license to publish the code if they don't want to (A Cingular rep says they won't). So... there is no reason to suppose the iPhone does not run OS X.<br />It probably does use some subset.<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/OS" rel="tag" class="techtag">OS</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/X" rel="tag" class="techtag">X</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/iPhone" rel="tag" class="techtag">iPhone</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/PowerPC" rel="tag" class="techtag">PowerPC</a> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Samsung" rel="tag" class="techtag">Samsung</a>portlandianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00327741092886325896noreply@blogger.com