Apple Tablet OS

The Apple rumor sites now all concur that there will likely be a special event on January 26th. That event is most likely going to focus on the long rumored Apple tablet.

There has been much debate amd speculation on what OS that tablet will run. Will it be Mac OS X or will it be iPhone OS?

I believe it’s almost certain that the tablet will run some version of iPhone OS. The reason, two words: App Store. Apple is almost certain to want to leverage the success of the iPhone App Store for its new tablet device. With over 100,000 available apps, the App Store is perhaps the most successful software distribution tool ever developed. And so any device Apple will introduce will need to tap into that ready-made resource.

Even if the tablet’s OS is more of a cross between iPhone OS and Mac OS, it will almost certainly be made capable of running iPhone apps in order to tap into the App Store in its current form. Beyond that, I would even venture to say that some version of the App Store for the Mac may be forthcoming as well.

App Submitted

Well, the plunge has been taken. I’ve submitted an iPhone app to the Apple iTunes App Store! Keeping fingers crossed that it makes it through the review process okay. If it does, it will be available free on the App Store for a limited time.

I’ll post a link here when it’s available. And you can check out www.srhawk.com for more info as it becomes available.