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It has been revealed that Apple will not be merging its desktop OS X operating system, with iOS, its smartphone operating system, as the company feels it would be a "waste of energy."

Phil Schiller, Apples marketing executive, on the eve of Macs thirtieth anniversary, stated that "We dont waste time thinking, But it should be one [interface!] How do you make these [operating systems] merge together? What a waste of energy that would be," to Mac World in an interview.

"The reason OS X has a different interface than iOS isnt because one came after the other or because this ones old and this ones new," added Craig Federighi, Apples software head. "Instead, its because using a mouse and keyboard just isnt the same as tapping with your finger."

Federighi also added that they do not want to create an impression among their users that Mac and iOS is created by two different companies by merging both. "You dont want to say the Mac became less good at being a Mac because someone tried to turn it into iOS," he said. "At the same time, you dont want to feel like iOS was designed by [one] company and Mac was designed by [a different] company, and theyre different for reasons of lack of common vision."

Microsoft, Apples biggest rival in the PC/ laptops space, has been working towards merging its desktop and smartphone operating systems for a while, with of course, the tablet category the true meeting point of portability and productivity. The Redmond-giant to that end released its desktop Windows 8 operating system with a touch-friendly interface, featuring Metro-style apps, which were first seen on the Windows Phone platform. To aim at ARM-based devices, the company also made Windows RT, or an ARM-compatible version of Windows 8.

However, the much vaunted shared Windows NT kernel between the new Windows operating systems never really bore any fruit, with us not seeing any major Windows software making its way to the Windows Phone platform, or vice versa. Hopefully, the Windows Threshold update, expected to arrive as Windows 9 for desktop in April 2015, will work further towards the convergence of devices. The exact changes in the proposed OS version are not clear as of yet, but the "Metro 2.0" feature in the OS version is said to focus on enhancing Microsofts new apps and tiles.

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A new tablet has been sneakily outed by the lately slumbering HP, and its actually good enough on paper to raise questions as to why it wasnt drummed up by the company. Weve only heard of the Omni 10 once before, when it shot through the FCCs database, though it didnt really help us piece it all together. No matter, for Microsofts store now shows the Windows 8.1-touting HP Omni 10 in stock, with a thorough specs sheet and snaps in tow.

To start off, the Omni 10 is actually looking quite promising – it sports a Gorilla Glass 3-protected 10.1-inch 1080p display thats being powered by one of Intels latest, most advanced ultramobile SoCs – the Atom Z3770, based on the silicon slingers Silvermont 22nm architecture. These Bay Trail chipsets are Intels bid for entry into the mobile space, something theyve struggled with mightily, and the company actually boasted that these new chips are going after the likes of Snapdragon 800. Preliminary tests of the tablet version of the SoC (Merrifield is Bay Trails smartphone counterpart), show that the chipset is actually handling itself very well, especially on the CPU side of things. GPU performance isnt as great, though, despite it relying on a admittedly watered-down version of the GPU found on Ivy Bridge SoCs (Intel Gen7).

Back to the basics, the Z3770 runs a quad-core configuration with cores that run at 1.5GHz, though they can turbo-up to 2.4GHz when needed (and provided that the Omni 10 can properly dissipate the extra heat). On the memory side of things, you get 2GB of LPDDR3 1066MHz RAM and 32GB of microSD-expandable native storage. The rest of the specs sheet touches on the 8MP Auto Focus/LED Flash and 2MP rear and front shooters, respectively, the battery that Microsoft claims is good for up to 8.5 hours, and the existence of a Micro HDMI slot, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11a (b/g/n). The relatively heavy (630g) and seriously generic-looking slate is ready to ship for $399 for the 32GB version, though it doesnt seem like you can tweak the amount of storage available, which is a shame. PhoneArena,

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Ask any Android fan out there what according to them is the best feature of the Android ecosystem and at the very least 8 out of 10 people will tell you that it is the Open Source nature of the platform. Being an open-source platform, Android enjoys support from the extremely talented developer community who slog away to better the features and performance of Google’s vanilla version of Android.

It is no wonder then that after-market custom ROM maker – OmniRom – has cited on their website that they’re working on a dialer app which would exclude Google from the integrated phone directory. When Google had rolled out the latest iteration of their Android ecosystem – namely Android 4.4 KitKat, many subtle and some not-so subtle features and changes had come along with it. One such change was to the phone dialer app which had predominantly remained unchanged since its rewriting in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

The KitKat dialer brought with it a cool feature of Caller IDs, wherein Google+ IDs got linked to your contacts’ phone numbers and you could see the ID once you made a call to the contact; and an integrated Phone Directory – which showed you results from local business listings when you typed out a name directly in the dialer app itself. However the KitKat dialer is definitely not open-sourced and its’ open source sibling – the AOSP dialer – has been left out in the rain.

Some users are fine with Google’s proprietary code in the dialer app; however there are users who are more conscious of their privacy and have concerns with Google servers being called in for every phone number they call on their Android phones. To address this concern, the fantastic guys at OmniRom have based their dialer app directly on the open-source AOSP dialer and have integrated a phone directory into the same, as evidenced by the lone screenshot they have revealed.

The OmniRom guys state that “this (currently in development) feature allows you to directly search for a nearby place’s phone number simply by typing keywords or a place’s name into your Dialer search bar. A second later results appear, and you can just tap on them to dial the number.”

The feature depends on OpenStreetMap (OSM) which is a free and open mapping service. This implies that whatever you search for on the OSM dependent dialer bypasses Google’s services, also the OmniRom dialer is designed to not let your exact position be known to OSM. Instead, broad-based location information is shared with the OSM servers for getting you the localized listings.

For now the feature is under development and we hope to see it in action on the latest OmniRom releases. Till then, we will make do with our KitKat dialer. Do you fear for your privacy on the KitKat dialer? Let us know in the comments below.

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