So there’s this news show in Australia, on Channel 9 to be precise. This channel happens to have a contract with MSN, which in turn belongs to Microsoft. In order to score points, they thought they’d be nifty and show an iPhone which appears to be running Parallels on the device, and in Parallels there’s a Windows XP desktop, showing Internet Explorer.
An iPhone – running Parallels?
Let’s check this out quickly. In the front, the Parallels iPhone, but then in the back, the iPhone’s original interface. Weird.
The iPhone runs a trimmed down version of Mac OS X on it, previously named just OS X, but now it is named iPhone OS. And since code is the same as on Mac OS X, yes, in theory, an iPhone version of Parallels *could* run on the device.
That’s what a blogger must have thought and expressed this, and posting an image he created how it could look like to have Parallels on the iPhone. Note the Parallels icon in the Dock…
Maybe a future iPhone generation can do this?
And behold – this image is EXACTLY the same as the one used in the news show. Bizarre…
iPhone graphic on Channel 9 totally wrong
kottke.org – iPhone running Parallels. Source of the above image.
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