{"id":1595,"date":"2007-10-04T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2199"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:23:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:23:40","slug":"re-state-of-the-iphone-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/04\/re-state-of-the-iphone-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: State of the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumors say Apple may switch<\/a> the iPhone main processor to Intel’s upcoming Moorestown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s too early to speculate until details come out, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to hear that Apple is considering this. And it would explain the closedness of the iPhone\/iPod touch architecture… after all, once Apple allows third-party apps in, and publishes a toolchain\/SDK, they’re pretty much locked into the current architecture, and switching to a new one is a major\/slow\/costly undertaking.<\/p>\n

Consider the previous iPods as a counterexample. Apple has switched architectures there – we can’t even say for sure how often – without any users noticing. With only the UI visible on OS X, and no toolchain\/SDK or even documentation of the innards, Apple is free to change things radically between software updates. By all accounts, the 1.0.x software is pretty much a work in progress, and 1.1.1 has probably changed a lot.<\/p>\n

So, keeping things closed for now means the software hasn’t stabilized, and very probably the hardware hasn’t stabilized either.<\/p>\n

Conclusions:<\/p>\n

– the current generation of iPhone\/iPod touch will remain closed forever, just like the first generations of iPods;<\/p>\n

– an SDK is likely to come out only after everything (especially the hardware) has stabilized;<\/p>\n

– Apple is unlikely to invest efforts into implementing TrustZone in the current generation, unless Moorestown (or whatever else they might adopt in the future) has a similar security feature – and maybe not even then;<\/p>\n

– the fabled OS X tablet will come out when the new hardware is ready; by that time screens will be ready in the proper sizes; Sony showed an 11″ OLED TV<\/a> recently, remember…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rumors say Apple may switch the iPhone main processor to Intel’s upcoming Moorestown. It’s too early to speculate until details come out, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to hear that Apple is considering this. And it would explain the closedness of the iPhone\/iPod touch architecture… after all, once Apple allows third-party apps in, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,16],"tags":[17,11,22],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-dev","category-hardware","tag-cpu","tag-iphone","tag-xcode"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-pJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}