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I actually think this is a major advantage for Apple. While Microsoft is trying to pare down their desktop system while maintaining legacy code, Apple is able

I actually think this is a major advantage for Apple. While Microsoft is trying to pare down their desktop system while maintaining legacy code, Apple is able to add core features based on usage and demand. The iPad and Mac are like testing grounds for each other where both OSes can borrow good aspects from the other. Sometimes it’s easier to start from scratch and rethink the fundamentals rather than modifying existing ideas under constraints of the old paradigm. Apple has MacOS already as a “fallback”. If Microsoft one day realizes that Apple’s tablet interface is the way to go, they would be seriously behind.

intended 9y ago
Actually it's the other way around. Under jobs, Apple has vision clarity, iOS was going to be primarily consumptive, and MacOS was production. The two were not to meet. MSFT on the other hand had grown too many OSes to deal with capably, an example being that xbox, windows, windows CE all had their own implementation of TCP (iirc). So MS decides to fix their architecture, unifying and ordering all implementations. It's a huge under taking. Apple without jobs is meandering towards the same ideas. But iOS is not designed for these use cases. The iPad Pro and Mac OS will not converge. The best that the iPad Pro will become is a power android variant. Microsoft will keep making surface and surface like devices, which will be not face that limitation. If anything, Apple will have to imitate the entire Microsoft style, and include a touch screen on the mac, along with stylus support. Their product vision is lost without jobs.