Apple is certainly pushing towards making the ecosystems inter-operable, which is great, but I don't think they are aiming for a true melding the way Microsoft

Apple is certainly pushing towards making the ecosystems inter-operable, which is great, but I don't think they are aiming for a true melding the way Microsoft is. In basic terms, I think I will be able to buy a Windows 8 tablet/notebook (in the style of the Asus Transformer) in 2012 on which I can run Photoshop and Visual Studio. I don't think I'll be able to buy an iPad in 2012 which runs Photoshop (the real one, not Photoshop Express) and Xcode.