Apple to take over the living room?

[dib8rman]

From what I understand.

An OS gives a GUI to allow easier access to the hardware that OS is responsible for.

Apps are the tools used to actually run procedures within the OS, I have some Cisco under my belt so I'm familiar with concept. I do have a history in application design also but it's not something I pursued. However I've lived for quite some time within the technology industry to know the certain characteristics found within specific professions.

That's really why I wanted to avoid that on going explanation. The guys who like are technology gurus wont sit for anything that they understand that isn't being used how they understand it. Logical - egomaniacs, usually anyway, sometimes you just meet up with nerds who are too busy with their own findings to take the time to understand ideals.

If you want to have an expansive conversation about technology Plaupis, your not going to find one here, anything you do find here will be rational but you will not want to - as rational as you are yourself. Like you find technology fun and your profession is within that field, I find humans fun and my profession is within that field. I find value to be much higher in how a person reacts over what the object was intended to be. That is mainly where I stood through the entire thread and also why I kept saying I'm not debating.

Home as an OS? I just had a picture of it in my head and how it would work, I said before that I have a general understanding of what an operating systems functions are: XMB would probably be layer 2 while Home is layer 1, the entire OS would be running online, and XMB would be a fast way to get to what you wanted to get to. That's what I figured my friend was talking about when he mentioned the idea.

I coincidentally ran into an article on the same subject not even a month later and then heard it mentioned by an old friend who works within a pretty well-sized investment firm in Britain, I figured that they must of cought some internal buzz but this was almost a year ago.

That's my refference for why I would claim Home could become a 'virtual' OS.

By the way now that I think about it, your totally correct... it's been a while since I worked with computers in that capacity and I do recall the term virtual being used for such things as mounting drives. Which makes sense also, but that's clearly not how I'm using it.