Rename Apple iPhone OS in iOS
The renaming is due to the fact that Apple iPhone OS already works not only on Apple iPhone smartphones and Apple iPod touch video players, but also on Apple iPad internet tablets, and in the future, it may be used in new Apple iTV set-top boxes (what rumors are intense).
The new name again crossed with the Cisco IOS trademark ( ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS ), but Apple solved this problem amicably:
“Cisco agreed to license the IOS trademark in favor of Apple for use as the name for its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad operating system. The license is given only for the trademark, but not for the technology ”- see the article: “ The official answer of Cisco to use the Apple trademark of iOS ” .
In the future, perhaps Apple uses a more informative name - for example:
1. For Apple iPhone smartphones and Apple iPod touch video players - will be Apple iOS for iPhone ,
2. And for Internet tablets Apple iPad - will be Apple iOS for iPad ,
3. And for the new Apple iTV set-top boxes - will be Apple iOS for iTV .
Because if internally for all of the above devices, the Apple iOS operating system has the same core — the device and the functionality — the user interface for the smartphone, Internet tablet and set-top box is different.
And the differences in user interfaces for different devices have already created some confusion - because today for the Apple iPhone smartphones 3Gs - the latest version of the OS that was already released bore the Apple iPhone OS 3.1.3 numbering - dated February 2, 2010.
And for Apple iPad Internet tablets - the latest released version of the OS wore Apple iPhone OS 3.2 numbering - dated January 27, 2010 - the iPad-only version, announced with its release (see: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_iOS ).
Most likely it was a temporary solution - to distinguish versions for the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad - only by numbering (perhaps this was done on purpose to convince developers that internally - for software developers, the iPhone and iPad OS are no different).
And in the future, this confusion will obviously have to somehow resolve.
Apple iOS is easy - Apple i Operating System.
“The origin of the prefix i in front of the company's products has hundreds of interpretations: according to one of the versions, the iMac, released in 1998, was decoded as the Internet Mac. Some fans of the brand also like to say that the prefix i (can be translated as me) denotes some kind of personal connection between the user and the gadget. Others argue that the prefix i must mean intellectual. ” - see: article: “Apple lost the right to the letter i in the product names in court” .
Today, no one will say for sure what Steve Jobs means by the letter - i
At different periods and in different advertising campaigns, this letter was played up and deciphered in different ways, and lately it was no longer deciphered at all - this letter became the Apple trademark.
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There is still worth remembering that 2 years ago, shortly after the end of the WWDC'08 conference, Apple registered a new trademark - “OS X” - see the article: “Apple registered a trademark of OS X” .
And some time after that, on the Apple website, the operating system for Apple iPhone smartphones was called OS X iPhone , and the desktop version of Mac OS X 10.5 was sometimes referred to simply as OS X Leopard .
Then it is obvious that Apple tried to show software developers that the smartphone OS X iPhone and the desktop OS X Leopard belong to the single Apple OS X family, and have almost the same OS kernel.
Today, Apple wants, in the minds of software developers, to somewhat distance and divide the Apple OS X family into two camps - mobile operating systems = Apple iOS , and desktop OS = Apple Mac OS X.
What could it mean - what do you think?
The new name again crossed with the Cisco IOS trademark ( ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS ), but Apple solved this problem amicably:
“Cisco agreed to license the IOS trademark in favor of Apple for use as the name for its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad operating system. The license is given only for the trademark, but not for the technology ”- see the article: “ The official answer of Cisco to use the Apple trademark of iOS ” .
In the future, perhaps Apple uses a more informative name - for example:
1. For Apple iPhone smartphones and Apple iPod touch video players - will be Apple iOS for iPhone ,
2. And for Internet tablets Apple iPad - will be Apple iOS for iPad ,
3. And for the new Apple iTV set-top boxes - will be Apple iOS for iTV .
Because if internally for all of the above devices, the Apple iOS operating system has the same core — the device and the functionality — the user interface for the smartphone, Internet tablet and set-top box is different.
And the differences in user interfaces for different devices have already created some confusion - because today for the Apple iPhone smartphones 3Gs - the latest version of the OS that was already released bore the Apple iPhone OS 3.1.3 numbering - dated February 2, 2010.
And for Apple iPad Internet tablets - the latest released version of the OS wore Apple iPhone OS 3.2 numbering - dated January 27, 2010 - the iPad-only version, announced with its release (see: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_iOS ).
Most likely it was a temporary solution - to distinguish versions for the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad - only by numbering (perhaps this was done on purpose to convince developers that internally - for software developers, the iPhone and iPad OS are no different).
And in the future, this confusion will obviously have to somehow resolve.
Apple iOS is easy - Apple i Operating System.
“The origin of the prefix i in front of the company's products has hundreds of interpretations: according to one of the versions, the iMac, released in 1998, was decoded as the Internet Mac. Some fans of the brand also like to say that the prefix i (can be translated as me) denotes some kind of personal connection between the user and the gadget. Others argue that the prefix i must mean intellectual. ” - see: article: “Apple lost the right to the letter i in the product names in court” .
Today, no one will say for sure what Steve Jobs means by the letter - i
At different periods and in different advertising campaigns, this letter was played up and deciphered in different ways, and lately it was no longer deciphered at all - this letter became the Apple trademark.
')
There is still worth remembering that 2 years ago, shortly after the end of the WWDC'08 conference, Apple registered a new trademark - “OS X” - see the article: “Apple registered a trademark of OS X” .
And some time after that, on the Apple website, the operating system for Apple iPhone smartphones was called OS X iPhone , and the desktop version of Mac OS X 10.5 was sometimes referred to simply as OS X Leopard .
Then it is obvious that Apple tried to show software developers that the smartphone OS X iPhone and the desktop OS X Leopard belong to the single Apple OS X family, and have almost the same OS kernel.
Today, Apple wants, in the minds of software developers, to somewhat distance and divide the Apple OS X family into two camps - mobile operating systems = Apple iOS , and desktop OS = Apple Mac OS X.
What could it mean - what do you think?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/95892/
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