Study into the Implications of Smartphone Operating System Security
Study into the Implications of Smartphone Operating System Security
Study into the Implications of Smartphone Operating System Security
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<strong>Study</strong> <strong>into</strong> <strong>the</strong> implications <strong>of</strong> <strong>Smartphone</strong> operating system security<br />
Analogies can be made with <strong>the</strong> personal computer model and lessons can be learnt from<br />
organisations like Micros<strong>of</strong>t and Apple. Both <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se technology companies have over 30<br />
years <strong>of</strong> operating system management experience.<br />
Each section will be complemented by additional, technical, information that will be available<br />
in <strong>the</strong> appendix.<br />
Apple iOS<br />
Source: Apple<br />
History <strong>of</strong> Apple iOS<br />
Apple’s iPhone OS (quickly renamed to iOS) was originally released (version 1.0) in June<br />
2007 for two Apple devices, <strong>the</strong> iPhone and <strong>the</strong> iPod Touch. These are handheld devices<br />
that use touch as <strong>the</strong> main user interface.<br />
iOS is derived from OS X 31 and both are based on <strong>the</strong> Darwin 32 open source operating<br />
system (UNIX-based operating system) released by Apple in 2000.<br />
In 2010 Apple announced <strong>the</strong> iPad, a new device running iOS, featuring a larger screen than<br />
<strong>the</strong> iPhone and <strong>the</strong> iPad.<br />
The latest versions <strong>of</strong> Apple TV, Apple’s digital media receiver, also run iOS (second and<br />
third generation Apple TVs run iOS 6.1.1 – released November 2012).<br />
31 Apple OS X, previously Mac OS X, is an Apple operating system designed for Apple Mac<br />
computers. It is based on UNIX and has been pre-loaded on Mac computers since 2002.<br />
32 Darwin is an open-source POSIX-compliant operating system with code derived from NeXTSTEP<br />
and BSD (Berkeley S<strong>of</strong>tware Distribution or Berkeley Unix)) open source projects<br />
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