Comments on: Carry and use a virtual operating system… on your iPhone http://gigaom.com/mobile/carry-and-use-a/ Sun, 27 May 2012 02:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Scotty http://gigaom.com/mobile/carry-and-use-a/#comment-364799 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:31:45 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/carry-and-use-a#comment-364799

Kevin, they have a Mac OS X version of the USB software that turns the iphone into a USB flash drive (with their optimizer secret sauce to speed it up and help it last longer).

They have a portable environment kinda like U3 that exploits VMware Fusion on the Mac to let you run VM’s directly of USB flash drives (or an iPhone with their software).

You could skip the windy netbook SP3 madness and just grab the Mac OS X version of their USB tool and run it on your Macbook Pro. But all it really does is turn your iPhone into a USB flash disk. Personally I’ve got 200MB of room left on my 16GB 3G so this tool isn’t too interesting to me… and I suspect my brand new Sandisk Extreme III 4GB SDHC 30MBps edition card is faster anywy. :-)

]]> By: turn.self.off http://gigaom.com/mobile/carry-and-use-a/#comment-364800 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:41:37 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/carry-and-use-a#comment-364800

this, if comboed with cloud sync of files onto the phone itself, and accessible by the virtual os, could allow someone to carry their work environment in their pocket.

that is, if one could agree on a common VM format of some sort for “terminals”…

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