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>> The Apple engineers might be able to answer this question. Reports suggest
>> they preferred Linux at first, but it was GPL (Jobs doesn't like that).
>
> Well, the answer seems to be in the source article:
> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/11/the-iphone-coul/
>
> Tony Fadell, the guy who was pushing Linux, saw the iPhone as just an
> iPod with a phone function, not the much more ambitious smart phone
> platform that emerged. In that use case my above objection goes away
> (there would be no need to port Cocoa and other OS X technologies to
> such a device), and embedded Linux might have been a good alternative to
> the little proprietary embedded OS the non-Touch iPods run.
>
> I'm rather glad Apple decided to go with the more ambitious version of
> the iPhone, though. If Apple hadn't gone and created a smart phone then,
> everyone would be talking about missed opportunities now.
That's what they say about tablets/sub-notebooks.
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