Put it this way: we just might need to review the OS all over again.
Nokia declined to provide clear guidance for 2011, citing uncertainty related to the OS transition.
Today the OS gets official, and Scott Forstall demoed the software on the iPhone 5.
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According to CNET, this points to the possibility of cross-compatibility between the OS and iMessage.
The OS data is expected to mature in late 2013 in line with previous guidance.
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But if the OS is indeed available to everybody, that's not going to happen.
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The lesson of smartphones seems to be that control of the OS really matters.
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And even if the OS does survive, it'll likely be relegated even further into niche markets.
Gate's chief bulldog, Steve Ballmer, could run the OS company leaving Bill with the applications side.
So far the reviews for both the OS and new models have been good.
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The OS did not matter in those days because there was only text and voice.
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That's unlikely here, as the software is an integrated part of the OS X.
Jolla Ltd. has been developing a new smartphone product and the OS since the end of 2011.
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Apple is also likely to make another push on the OS software front in the coming year.
Whatever its failings, Windows XP is the OS many of us are still very happy to be using.
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The keyboard is physically connected, but the OS is completely disjoint from it aside from the text input.
The first is that by relying on Android ported apps, the cohesive look of the OS is diluted.
Because of the nature of the OS, these apps behave far more like Android apps than BlackBerry apps.
Get past the colors, the OS, and the spec sheet is just as cutting edge, untried and untested.
Sure PCs have become more like this over the years with the OS preloaded and things like that.
But can you imagine anyone these days accepting a phone that you had to load the OS onto?
Further, there's no way to navigate through the OS using just the pen.
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The OS plays a very important role in the success of smartphone product.
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Often anymore, the OS just seems like something that gets in the way.
Mac: Mountain Lion has sold 7M copies since July, fastest ramp of the OS X releases to date.
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This is BlackBerry's bread and butter, and the OS doesn't disappoint here -- at least, when it comes to performance.
The pen works anywhere in the OS, but it's best-suited to the graphics and various other creative apps, including OneNote.
Only then did we learn Samsung had chosen not to support newer versions of the OS on our device model.
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Examining the screenshots, we see that the OS lists South Korean carrier SK Telecom as a potential mobile provider.
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