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Wally Wang's Apple Farm
October 10, 2014
Wally Wang's Apple Farm
“The Future is iOS” by Wally Wang
The Future is iOS; Haptics: the User Interface of Tomorrow; The Next Apple Event; The Sorry Saga of
Quicken; Turn Off Notifications.
When Apple created the iPhone, they also created the operating system, later dubbed iOS, to
run on it. However, Apple originally created iOS to run on the iPad, switched their focus on
introducing the iPhone first, and then later went back to introduce the iPad.
That meant from the start, Apple knew iOS would work with both smartphones and tablets. In
comparison, Microsoft hurriedly rushed Windows Phone to compete against the iPhone, and
then got caught flat footed when they realized their Windows Phone operating system was
only designed for the smaller screens of smartphones and couldn't easily be adopted for the
larger screens of tablets as well.
To handle tablets, Microsoft created Windows RT and bolted on touchscreen features to
Windows, creating the clumsy and awkward interface called Windows 8. Not surprisingly,
creating two different operating systems to handle smartphones and tablets meant that
programs written for smartphones couldn't run on tablets and vice versa.
On the other hand, Apple made it easy for iPhone apps to run on the iPad with no
modification whatsoever. While iPhone apps may not look perfect on the larger iPad screen,
they still worked.
Apple's long-term plans for iOS aren't just limited to smartphones and tablets, but to other
devices such as Apple TV, Apple Watch, and now Car Play, designed to let drivers control
entertainment functions in their car without taking their hands off the steering wheel.
Car Play runs iOS and lets you use Siri for hands-free control of your car's entertainment
system. Using Siri you can get driving directions, make phone calls through a connected
iPhone, and listen to messages. You can read one of the first reviews of Car Play on the
EFTM site.
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