I like the competition for Apple in this space now. Surface/Nexus etc....
I hope it kicks Apple in the butt so they will find a way to innovate the user experience and advance the interface. Hopefully.
You know, Apple wasn't first to market with touch devices or tablets, but they were the first company to make the concept sing and dance and be an immersive and fun experience.
I'm still kind of trying to wrap my head around how Microsuck seems to have beaten them to the punch with Windows 8. Win8 lacks the intuitive nature of an Apple os with the interface and ease of use, but we expect that from a windows product.
Lion and Mountain Lion to me where kind of like IOS threw up on OSX and they called it an upgrade. They do need to advance the interface... but they really need to be doing this to the Mac. Microsoft is in the spot where Apple should have been well before them.
Once upon a time, there was this company called Apple...and they were #1 in personal computers and had the best OS. Then one day, they were on a respirator and near death because a subpar knock off took over the world and nearly put them out of business in a place called Redmond. While I don't see things going quite that bad for Apple again, I can see the tablet market moving that way and faster than people think.
Both IOS and OSX need some love, and maybe some procreation... because that would be one cute baby.