I agree with two things: 1) Bringing touch based user interfaces/behaviors to the desktop is not going to work when the keyboard and mouse are the means of ope

I agree with two things: 1) Bringing touch based user interfaces/behaviors to the desktop is not going to work when the keyboard and mouse are the means of operating them. For desktops I don't see the mouse and keyboard going away since I would not wish to spend as much time as I do in front of a computer with my arms extended out the whole time (or at all actually). The only reason why I'd see doing this would be in hopes of having one OS run on different types of devices and therefore having the need to support multiple modes (IE: the win8 reason). 2) Limiting your calendar/contact apps to look like the physical objects they're meant to replace is an incredibly bad idea. The whole point of going digital was to remove constraints and make performing tasks easier through the freedom of not being stuck within the confines of paper. Where's the advantage now? More intuitive apps? Were the majority of users not able to figure out how to use the old calendar app? Why do I feel like more people just wont use it now because it will be too tedious to perform tasks they became used to with the previous versions? Not to mention this makes it look like it was intended for elementary school students. OS X had the advantage of having a very clean and professional look to it that I am sure won it a lot of customers before. I mean I get ill looking at ANY Windows text editor (since they all seem to come with like 50 icons spread out over 5-10 different toolbars), but if the alternative is an app that has a giant crayon for a cursor -- because that's so intuitive -- I'll still stick with Windows.