A YouTube video and an unrelated tip have converged to spell out “iOS.”
According to our tipster, Apple will rename iPhone OS to “iOS” in order to “better reflect the diversity of devices that will run the operating system: iPhone, iPod touch, and future devices to be announced.”
A YouTube video, not from our tipster, from “artmach1,” shows “iOS” on a background that seems to closely match Apple’s special event invitation (see below) along with the text description: shaky cam grab out of some apple tablet presentation rehearsal for tomorrows brand new thing—I think any way. might have been enhanced from a pen cam or something. or hidden in a backpack or a box of equipment.
Direct link via YouTube here.
MacDailyNews Note: This is an unconfirmed RUMOR. We cannot confirm the veracity of this report or the video or its accompanying text.
Apple special event invitation:
i doubt it will be called ios…thats what cisco uses on their routers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS
“Jan 26, 10 – 07:42 pmComment from: pwntbywombat
i doubt it will be called ios…thats what cisco uses on their routers”
cisco also had “iPhone” too prior to Apple.
If so, it’s long overdue. Let’s hope this is accurate.
I get tired of writing iPhone/iPod touch platform.
thats true…but cisco never really did anything with iPhone from what i recall. IOS is still used on all their routers and switches
May be the first in many steps to move away from a numbered OS naming scheme for all products. “OS X 11.x.x” is a clunky and confusing reference. It’s a problem that will need to be solved in the next few years, so perhaps this is the beginning….
First it was OS X iPhone, then iPhone OS. Hope they choose a name and stick with it!
Why no sound on this video?
cause its FAKE! IOS is owned and used by cisco…its not real
The text isn’t within the orange circle. I call bs
Let me restate: FAKE. Apple does not use an emboss effect on type. Plus, the color splotches do not match Apple’s invitation.
…some frigtard just lost his job. And benefits. With extreme prejudice. Serves him right for using his iPhone during the rehearsal.
Doesn’t anyone know the meaning of the word “surprise” any more?
Between this twat and Terry McGraw (who is in the process of grabbing his ankles as I write this), Americans don’t know how to keep their pie holes shut.
Losers.
@macspec
“Let me restate: FAKE. Apple does not use an emboss effect on type. Plus, the color splotches do not match Apple’s invitation.”
Good observation. But sometimes, when a large-format banner or poster is involved, subtle emboss effects are used for contrast purposes. It’s a general design technique when dealing with large signage viewed from afar.
One can surmise from the shakiness of the image that a long lens was used to get the image, which would support the “large banner” theory.
That’s not to say that it isn’t BS, but that there is a plausible alternate explanation for your acute observation.
FAKE… Look carefully and you’ll see it’s superimposed atop an existing Apple desktop picture. Also, the typography isn’t kerned the way a pro would handle it. Thoughts?
@ Deus Ex Technica
Not only the name… I think this is the beginning of a big change in how we think of operating systems. The days of buying a boxed copy of an OS are soon to end.
@ChrissyOne
“Not only the name… I think this is the beginning of a big change in how we think of operating systems. The days of buying a boxed copy of an OS are soon to end.”
Agreed. The NC data center and other recent cloud investments certainly point that way.
@erock –
Good call. It’s also interesting that with all the shaking, you never really see the “edge” of whatever the media is. And, the shaking itself seems a little mechanical. Either the movie was cropped in to avoid seeing the edge of the banner or display, OR the skakiness was added with Motion or some equiv (which would have scaled the image to achieve the effect).
We need only wait a few more hours to find out….
I don’t know if they’re renaming iPhone OS… but I do know that’s a fake. Weak.
that is so friggin fake. without any doubt.
I think someone made a movie on their computer and posted it.
I think MOS for Mobile OS makes more sense.
Not that that matters….
The “shake” is an effect. It’s not even really a shaky camera. It’s an effect that someone applied. This is a boring fake. Move along, nothing to see here.
@erock
” Look carefully and you’ll see it’s superimposed atop an existing Apple desktop picture. Also, the typography isn’t kerned the way a pro would handle it. Thoughts?”
Allow me to say, from one “professional” to a website commenter: You do know what you said makes no sense in the professional world, right? “the typography isn’t kerned the way a pro would handle it” If what you’re trying to say is the font isn’t spaced in a natural way, it indeed is.
Though if you want my opinion, it appears it’s put on top of the “Welcome to OS X” intro video that plays when you first run a mac laptop. Which either lends to it’s credibility (Maybe we see this on the tablet) or dismisses it as fake.
Either way, I’d rather it be called iOS, I like it.
Wasn’t it just plain OS X?
think from the same dude
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artmach1/4307663572/in/pool-macrumors/