“More than that, two of the cool-factor features in Snow Leopard also came from the iPhone: support for Chinese character input via trackpad gestures, and time-zone auto-detect based on Wi-Fi router ‘fingerprints,'” Gruman reports.
“Of course, the feature flow goes both ways. The new iPhone 3.0 OS includes Mac OS X’s Spotlight search capability to make all data on the device searchable. One technology that is new to both iPhone OS 3.0 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the Web-spot capability, used in Snow Leopard to help the visually impaired select Web page sections to have them read aloud by the VoiceOver utility, and used in iPhone OS to select such sections for copy-and-paste operations,” Gruman reports. “But the influence of the iPhone on Snow Leopard’s feature set [both the iPhone OS and Mac OS are based on the same core] does call into question how the mobile environment may further shape desktop OS functionality in future iterations.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
