The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently published a new patent (via the Cover Apple) describing a system by which spaces, Apple to pursue many independent desktops on a single computer can be restored to the iPad. Patent, which Apple requested in 2009, does not make sense too much in the accompanying pictures — unless you think that may provide more guidance on the future of the iOS.
Spaces on the Tablet apparently will act as spaces for OS X, allowing the user to set different workspaces, and then display these separate desktops eyes all at once with the bird in the thumb nailed a view that would enable it to quickly switch between them. In iOS in its current state, this may mean that all applications recently opened, which are typically located in the tray multitasking; Each as its own space separate from the thumbnail previews app last State between closures.
What the patent actually shows, however, is a system by which applications appear on separate desktops in the very same way as now on OS X, Which opens a fantastic possibility that Apple either is or has at the same time created more OS X-like desktop interface on iPad, with the possibility of many existing applications open on each, for example.
Mac OS X, the lion is the next version of the operating system on your computer's desktop and notebook Apple and use strongly with iOS. Even small, system-wide changes as the fact that the direction of scrolling now been withdrawn in the lion and everywhere the presence of new buttons slider to switch between changes of preferences indicate that Apple touch in mind considerations about OS X, even if it is not misleading in its composition Mac touchscreens.
Similarly, with each new iteration, iOS becomes more sophisticated and more capable of dealing with the same sorts of tasks like its predecessor the desktop. Printing, multitasking, by opening the file types in different applications that are associated; all these are features which, although still in some ways limited, gradually made their way in iOS.
The trajectory of the evolution of Apple with both products is clearly pointing the same directionand may even be tended towards if this patent is an accurate depiction of the future, and if the iOS and Mac OS still on the road to parity. Portable equipment will only get more efficient and more comprehensive over time, which means that one day, they compete with their desktop and notebook computing precedents, as far as the type of software can be run. After that date, Apple can move to the highly flexible single platform operating system for all devices to maximize Cross-compliance and reduce the cost of in-house development. If things moving in that direction, it may explain why his father and former head of OS X Bertrand Serlet and Apple recently took on the methods of.
What do you think? This platform Unified iOS x something to see in our lifetime?
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