Apple Pushing iPhone OS to Other Platforms

As per a Job posting on the Apple site, the company is looking to expand its portfolio of iPhone OS based devices to more platforms. Computerworld's Seth Weintraub was one of the first guys who spotted it. The new job posting states that Apple is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms.

Apple recently launched iPad, the first device running iPhone OS and we aren't counting the iPod Touch as a device since it's clearly a portable media player. We don't know what would come next, but it's quite possible that the next iPhone OS based product would evolve from existing products like the iPad.

The posting reads as follows:

The Core Platform team within Apple's Core OS organization is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms. The team is responsible for low level platform architecture, firmware, core drivers and bring-up of new hardware platforms. The team consists of talented engineers with experience in hardware, firmware, IOKit drivers, security and platform architecture.

This position requires a very technical and hands-on leader, experience in working closely with hardware team and a deep understanding of bare metal software. You must be a highly self-motivated individual who seeks to create a dynamic and creative team environment in which old problems are solved in new and innovative ways.

Job responsibilities include:

- Leadership and management of a team of talented software engineers in a fast-paced and demanding software development environment
- Working closely with the hardware and custom silicon teams to bring-up new platforms and prototype systems
- Defining the software roadmap to support a range of hardware platforms, including iPhone & iPod
- Lead the team s assistance in requirements for future hardware and custom silicon

The new 'bring-up' platforms would certainly carry chips manufactured by Apple since the company already debuted new the Apple A4 System-on-a-Chip in iPad. As NY Times reported, Apple has spent $1 billion for developing ARM-architecture based chips. So the new platforms that Apple may launch as part of their product cycle would consist these chips. So far, there's no information on who got appointed for this Apple job.