{"id":1514,"date":"2007-07-22T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T21:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/os-x\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T23:17:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T03:17:31","slug":"os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nI just issued a refund to a customer who bought SpamSieve under the assumption that it would run on his iPhone. This was not an unreasonable assumption. Apple has been advertising the fact that the iPhone runs <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/01\/os_x\">OS X<\/a>, and to the average user this is indistinguishable from \u201cMac OS X.\u201d Plus, the iPhone runs \u201cSafari,\u201d which everyone knows is a Mac program, not to mention \u201cMail.\u201d And while the iPhone was once derided as a closed platform, Steve Jobs made headlines for <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/a-very-sweet-solution\/\">announcing<\/a> at WWDC that Apple now had a way for developers to \u201ccreate applications for mobile devices.\u201d Microsoft is at least clear that its handheld OS is \u201cWindows Mobile\u201d and that it runs \u201cOffice Mobile.\u201d Under the hood, the iPhone apps are called \u201cMobileSafari\u201d and \u201cMobileMail,\u201d but in its public copy Apple eschews the modifier. I don\u2019t think Apple is trying to mislead, but the generic names coupled with the constant emphasis on how the iPhone contains \u201cthe full Safari engine\u201d and lets you access \u201cthe real Internet\u201d is confusing people.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just issued a refund to a customer who bought SpamSieve under the assumption that it would run on his iPhone. This was not an unreasonable assumption. Apple has been advertising the fact that the iPhone runs OS X, and to the average user this is indistinguishable from \u201cMac OS X.\u201d Plus, the iPhone runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}