> make an iPad like device that runs full MacOS iOS is designed for touch, OSX is designed for pointer. What you describe is Windows 7/8 and I think this is a

> make an iPad like device that runs full MacOS iOS is designed for touch, OSX is designed for pointer. What you describe is Windows 7/8 and I think this is a mistake. I'd rather have iPad/iOS evolve to allow more things that we take for granted in OSX. Thinks like: - possibility to tell what's my default web browser, mail client, whatever. - possibility for apps to schedule time- and resource-limited tasks (e.g for Sparrow to poll IMAP without need for push+giving my credentials to a third party) and maybe ability to deny that possibility to the app (similar to location). - a full-blown local Unix access so I can run zsh/vim/tmux/python/ssh/whatever, even if it's jailed in a sandbox/chroot. - full keyboard navigation when a hardware keyboard is plugged in (e.g cmd-tab to work for switching apps instead of reaching for the home-button+screen is so obvious). This gap is today filled for me by my MacBook Pro, and for others by connecting remotely to various machines via iSSH/Prompt. There's no technical reason not to do it on an iPad 3. But I'd like, say two to five years from now, to have such a shapeshifting device that I'd carry everywhere. It looks like I would be interested in an Android tablet, but Android really is not there yet at the core (and by far, for a multitude of reasons), while iOS simply nailed it, deeply.