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Cool Leopard features that the iPhone could use
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I saw a couple of nifty things in Steve's keynote about Leopard that would be awesome if they showed up in the iPhone.
1) Quick Look. Everyone wants to know if the iPhone can open Word, Excel, PDFs, etc. Well, Quick Look uses a plugin architecture so that Leopard can display any document that a developer has made a plugin for and Steve showed us Excel docs and PDFs. This could be very cool on the iPhone. No editing, but viewing of any doc out there.
2) Back to My Mac. How about an iPhone app that took advantage of the Back to My Mac feature so that it always knows how to contact any of your Macs. You could then browse them and even view docs (see #1). In version 2 of the iPhone when battery power is boosted, you could even stream your tunes from your home computer without having to have all the songs taking up space on your iPhone (okay, maybe version 3).
Since the iPhone is running Leopard, I thought these might be technologies from OSX that would make the iPhone cool. Anyone see any other Leopard stuff that would fit in nicely?
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Quick Look would not be terribly useful on the iPhone for one reason: The phone has no visible file system. There is nothing to Quick Look at.
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I thought the word on the street is that the current iPhone OS is based on Tiger and not Leopard. I have nothing to back that up, it's just something I read recently on the web somewhere that II can't seem to find now ;-)
And Chuckit, that doesn't mean there is nothing to Quick Look at, if someone emails me a Word document, can I view it on the iPhone?
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I was under the impression the iPhone was running 10.5 since it relies heavily on Core Animation which is a 10.5 only feature.
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Originally Posted by jasong 
And Chuckit, that doesn't mean there is nothing to Quick Look at, if someone emails me a Word document, can I view it on the iPhone?
Precisely.
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It's gotta be running Leopard and Safari 3, that's partly why Safari is being ported toWindows, right?
I totally agree about Quick Look, that would totally cement iPhone's place in the smartphone market and make people less likely to dismiss it as a mere consumer gizmo.
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Great idea. Hopefully some engineers in Cupertino are on it already.
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