Why does Apple not do this?

Cannot do anything?
What are some examples of what you want to do but can't?

Have to pay for everything?
What are you having to pay for that you feel is unwarranted?

 

Is this a rant or do you really have examples of things your cant do on OSX?

I agree they are trying to make thing iOS friendly for cross compatibility but untill they remove Finder and Terminal OSX will still be an operating system

 

You added more information to your post but none of it has to do with the operating systems of OSX or iOS, it has to do with 3rd party apps and the developers, so I am a little confused

 

I don't follow. I can play plenty of games on my mac without coins. Xbox live, that's on my Xbox, oddly.

 

I'd take that bet. If you were right, why would they build the new utility called "Gatekeeper"? So they can remove it in the next version? Doesn't make much sense.

The rest of your rant is just as well thought out. (When the first thing you complain about is no flash...)

 

^^^
No, the reason there is no Flash is because it was a dog that hogged resources, degraded performance and drained the battery out the wahzoo, even to the point that Adobe dropped development of the mobile version

 

Adobe stopped supporting Flash on IOS and android devices about 2 weeks ago.

 

Again, Adobe stopped development on Flash for mobile. It is dead. It has nothing to do with iTunes. Plenty of video sites besides YouTube serve h.264 video through HTML5.

 

Nope. Other than apps, of course. Plenty of choices for books, music, video, etc.

 

This is a tired old argument about the "walled garden" that has been cussed and discussed over and over

Apple does not offer an open system, but that is nothing new
Yes, you get the apps from the app store, but there are (as stated above) plenty of options

If you aren't a fan of that, then jailbreak and get your apps elsewhere

As far as content goes, Apple doesn't determine the fact that Hulu charges, that games aren't free or that they have in app upgrades or "coins". That is the content providers and developers. The iPhone/iPad are the delivery system, not the source of that content.

 

sure it has to keep up with iOS to make it all communicate seamlessly

but i disagree OSX will no longer have a file system, allow apps from outside the app store, flash, and everything else your were trying to say OSX cant do

 

No, I don't see that
And no, I don't think that is bad

Apple is learning from both sides, OS X and iOS
If there are good things to be shared, so be it
We are a very long way away from there being only 1 OS for all Apple devices
And if we ever reach that point, it will be because it works on the hardware available (whatever that might be at the time)

I think you have been reading too many doomsayer blogs and posts
You have not raised any real issues concerning OS X or iOS, only with apps and content

 

Nope. It's exactly the opposite. They started out with the same base and are developing features specific to their own UI. The movement of features back and forth between the two OS is a matter of creating feature parity where it makes sense.

Microsoft is the one doing what you are suggesting.

 

You keep changing your argument and I no longer even know what point you are trying to make

Technology is advancing
We used to use punch cards for computing
Then we used keyboards with dot prompts
Along came the mouse, trackpads, stylus
And now touch screens

Hardware and software keep advancing
And we will continue to see new implementations of it
Apple will learn from both OSX and iOS about what works

I don't see that as a problem

What you seem to be describing as a doomsday scenario (for whatever reason) is what Microsoft is apparently trying to do with the Surface/Windows 8
Not what Apple is doing

 

So, do you think that laptops/desktops are going to lose the keyboard/mouse/trackpad or tablets/smartphones are going switch to keyboard/mouse/trackpad as the primary input method? Because that is the fundamental difference between the two OSs. There is no reason for them to be combined into one. That's what Microsoft wants to do, not Apple.

Obviously, they will become more similar and more connected as tablets continue to grow in power. That only makes sense. But the reason that Apple is maintaining two separate OSs, the different primary UIs, is not going to change. More likely, a revolutionary new UI will come along to replace them both.

(And, just to be clear, I'm not arguing against the possibility of some sort of convertible device that may switch between iOS and OS X in different modes.)