As in everything created by the company that now runs Tim Cook, when Steve Jobs, Jony Ive and his entire team began to think about the operating system that would use what we know today as the iPhone, they assessed several possibilities. The two most important were a reduced version of OS X presented by Scott Forstall and a extended version of the operating system that used the iPod, a software that was known as Acorn OS.
The video you can see below has been published by Sonny Dickson, who has already leaked a lot of information related to the apple on different occasions. In it we can see, not too well, a prototype of the first iPhone running Acorn OS. Seen over the years, it seems incredible that the possibility of using a system will be valued controlled by a touch wheel in a device whose entire screen was tactile, which would allow us to play where we wanted without relying on a simulation of a physical wheel.
Introducing Acorn OS
The operating system already had all the important applications of a phone, such as the application we know today as Phone, Contacts and Messages or iMessage, but I didn't have something very important now 10 years ago: a Web navigator which allows us to see anything from anywhere in the world.
As you all know, Apple finally decided on the proposal of Forstall and his famous skeumorphism that Jony Ive "killed" in 2013 with the release of iOS 7. But, skeumorphism aside, much of what we use today on our iPhone, and also iPod Touch and iPad, continues to maintain the roots of what Forstall he imagined: a tactile operating system on which shortly after all Apple's competition would be based and that marked a before and after on mobile telephony. Of course, thankfully that Acorn OS has remained in only one anecdote, right?
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