It’s normal to see how Apple reuses the operating systems of its devices to be able to provide functions to accessories like the HomePod, which first used tvOS and then moved to watchOS. But the new Studio Display left us with something interesting: Apple’s new monitor runs iOS 15.4.
Improve the screen with updates… of iOS?
I’m not talking about a scaled down version of iOS 15.4, no. Course the full versionwith the same number of to construct (19E241) found in the iPhone. This is what John Gruber was able to discover and saw again in Daring Fireball. For convenience, the Studio Display is like a 27-inch iPhone with its A13 Bionic chip, camera, ports, and speakers.
This means that any software updates to improve capabilities or resolve issues with the Apple Studio Display can be channeled from a simple iOS updateand this will surely happen automatically without the user noticing and as long as the monitor is connected to a Mac with an internet connection.
Precisely, the first analyzes of the Studio Display indicate that the behavior of the integrated camera can be improved, which led Apple to investigate and discover a bug that can be updated in this way soon.
Now what I wonder is if, knowing this, a developer with a lot of will I could run all that iOS on the screen itself although it is not tactile. It would be something curious and amusing to see, even if it is only at the level of the execution of the core. That said, the biggest iPhone in the world costs 1,779 dollars.
