Err, that would be because you are correct. :-) And actually, it's the iPhone, not the other two.
The iPhone is essentially an ARM based computer running Mac OS X, glued onto a mobile phone.
This meant that they had to pull a lot of OS X kernel/OS people over to iPhone... and that had unfortunate consequences for Leopard. That's why Leopard lacks some of the polish that Panther and Tiger had, and was somewhat buggier on initial release than the previous two.
Things should get better from here - the ARM port should be relatively stable now, and I don't think there's any plans to introduce another chip platform any time soon. :-)
Sure, I expect them to bring out a tablet with full touch screen, but that'll be low power Intel, I'm guessing.
And, well, plugging 3 giant USB fat32 drives into a PPC machine isn't exactly a common regular every day thing. Heck, plugging 3 giant USB FAT32 drives into any machine isn't exactly a common thing. FAT32 is kinda crappy and unreliable all on its own, regardless of platform. I wouldn't expect that to behave particularly well on any platform, let alone an old platform that's essentially been end-of-lifed.
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Date: 2008-09-11 01:35 (UTC)The iPhone is essentially an ARM based computer running Mac OS X, glued onto a mobile phone.
This meant that they had to pull a lot of OS X kernel/OS people over to iPhone... and that had unfortunate consequences for Leopard. That's why Leopard lacks some of the polish that Panther and Tiger had, and was somewhat buggier on initial release than the previous two.
Things should get better from here - the ARM port should be relatively stable now, and I don't think there's any plans to introduce another chip platform any time soon. :-)
Sure, I expect them to bring out a tablet with full touch screen, but that'll be low power Intel, I'm guessing.
And, well, plugging 3 giant USB fat32 drives into a PPC machine isn't exactly a common regular every day thing. Heck, plugging 3 giant USB FAT32 drives into any machine isn't exactly a common thing. FAT32 is kinda crappy and unreliable all on its own, regardless of platform. I wouldn't expect that to behave particularly well on any platform, let alone an old platform that's essentially been end-of-lifed.