Apple may simply provide an iPhone OS 2.0 beta release (superseding OS 1.2) to developers. Or it may ship OS 1.2 as a public product, allowing testing for the live-testing of the new components.

iPhone OS 2.0 Release date: July 11, 2008 Key features: The App Store makes its debut, ushering in a flashlight and fart noise app renaissance.

Today marks 15 years since Apple officially released iPhone OS 1.0 on June 29, 2007. Let's take a walk down memory lane as we look at how iOS changed over the past one and a half decades.

iPhone OS 1.0 Emulated Using QEMU Known as devos50, Martin de Vos, is the developer behind emulating iOS on computers. He used a lot of reverse engineering to emulate the first version of the ...

Support for iPhone OS 1.x is a possibility, but promises have not been made for this yet. So far the emulator has only been tested with iPhone/iPod touch apps for iPhone OS 2.x.

iPhone OS 1.0 lacked copy-and-paste, a native App Store, Exchange support -- a must-have for enterprise customers -- and much more. That said, at the time the software was groundbreaking.

Over the next few years NeXTStep was modified to become Mac OS X, and ultimately iPhone OS 1. But today, BeOS lives on in the Haiku Project — an open-source API-compatible port of BeOS.

There have been predictions and wish lists for iPhone OS 4.0 since…well, since iPhone OS 3.0 was released. Many of those items will fail to materialize and will become the seeds of the iPhone 5. ...