Apple's next working organism Mac OS X 10.6 will reportedly sponge skin and tools from iPhone. Two major functions of iPhone OS - Multi dash and Geo-setting will be implemented in the Snow Leopard.
AppleInsider's gossip, a pre-issue specs of Snow Leopard OS includes CoreLocation framework which comes candidly from the iPhone OS SDK. Current room and longitude of the Macs running Snow Leopard would be identified through the CoreLocation framework. Wondering how? Mac's networking hardware will be converged with Internet to broadcast/split presented position of the Mac since no GPS chips are embedded on Mac gear.
The Silicon Alley Insider points that Apple already uses Skyhook Wireless in the iPhone and iPod Touch which uses database on Wi-Fi hot spots for identifying addict locality based on GPS platform.
The patent engaging multi-hint facet of iPhone and iPod Touch would be incorporated in MacBooks, MacBook Pros and MacBook Air on Snow Leopard. Developers presently marks applications for Snow Leopard will be able to incorporate multi dash in their programs through Cocoa-based programming interfaces. And after charming multi-meet patent for iPhone recently, it's likely that Apple will exploit the same on their Mac machines.
Not to overlook, both Mac OS X and iPhone OS are based on same foundations of codes and libraries. Hence, incorporating multi-touch and geo-setting skin in Snow Leopard may be less bothersome.
Coincidentally, this new follows after Google recently rolled out Google Latitude facet in Maps for Computers and Mobiles.
The skin of Snow Leopard have raised expectations and we can expect to drawback a preview of it at the World Wide Developers Conference in June this year.
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