THE Silicon Alley Insider spoke today with an industry source who says he had contact with the operating system that runs on Apple's tablet, expected to be presented in a keynote at the end of this month.
ITablet MockupMany have long speculated that the product would come with an iPhone OS hybrid with Mac OS X, and it looks like this is what it will be. The comments are that it is "beautiful" (don't say, coming from Apple!), The "new and attractive UI" and the tablet "would be a big iPhone, but not just a big iPhone". Yesterday, the Cult of Mac disclosed that its interface would have a “steep learning curve”, which indicates that it may be quite different from what we know today.
The source of LEAVES he claims to have seen only the system, but had no contact with the tablet itself.
