I'm convinced that the next version of OSX will allow you to install and run natively all iPhone and iPad apps, with future screen being touch enabled, and those that aren't letting you use the mouse instead of your finger when gesturing.
What do you guys think?
Frankly, I can't wait till I can install and run the facebook app on a MBP, for no reason in particular, just because I can.
Although I'm tempted to disagree, I think that it does make some sense. Apple is jumping with both feet into the Apps/iTunes world. It would certainly be in keeping with their current trend to attempt to make more and more apps available for more platforms. I could even see in the future, Apple not offering any applications/programs that aren't downloadable. If Stevey is trying to turn his back on non-digital download media, a sensible step would be integrating all of Apple's product offerings to at least one sort of app platform. That being said, I don't think that Apple will want to ignore OSX specific programs (and they realistically cannot at all given the complexity and intensity of high-end software compatible with OSX) for the near or even far future.
In all, I would not be a bit surprised to see Iphone, Ipod, Ipad apps offered to Mac users. I wouldn't be that surprised to see an option to switch between Iphone OS and SL as a way to draw the masses into an easier switch to Mac.
However, I really don't know much about any of this and am pretty much making this up as I go. I do think, however, that Apple will look for ways to integrate their Ipod/pad/phone lineup with their computer offerings as a way to make a transition for run of the mill PC users more palatable. I always think of my mom, an affluent, relatively savvy buyer who has never owned anything but a PC but who in the last 2 years has purchased 3 Ipods, an Iphone and will probably talk herself into an Ipad. For a customer like her, and many others I think, once they get comfortable with the Iphone/padTouch/Pad software would be more likely to switch to a computer with at least the option of that sort of user experience. I may be wrong, but I can imagine Apple wanting to streamline as much as possible. Hell, though, I thought the Ipad would offer a version of OSX switchable to Iphone OS. I figured that it made sense to allow a fast, efficient, streamlined OS along side a more robust, if less efficient alternative so that the user could decide what type of use they need. Shows what I know about anything.
But....I don't see a touchscreen for a laptop without some kind of either 1) detachable screen 2) pivoting and folding screen. Either way, not this time around for the MBP and probably not next time either.
