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Originally Posted by Zorz
have you ever ran OSX?
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I have and I htink it's a great OS. But it's designed for the general-purpose personal computer model, in which the OS provides a set of services, with little knowledge or interest in the applications that run over it.
On my iMac I can readl email at one end, and edit multiple-hour high defintion movies with effects and stuff at the other end, and all things in between. OSX's goals are secure reliable support for the widest range of uses, and scalability from portable to multi-processor clusters
Android, Windows Phone 7 and iOS are designed for a different model - a restricted range of services and a simpler usage model. Their goals are proatbility, battery life and simplicity of use.
So I think it's right to say that, for a while at least, the rivals are Adnroid and WinP 7. Give it 5 years, and you ight find these portable OS's moving to the desktop in a big way, but I don't see OSX moving to tablet devices in a big way.
Incidentally, I couldn't use iOS or any of the rivals on my desktop if it meant sacrificing my control and flexibility. I'm hapy to do that on iPad and iPhone in the interestes of ease of use. But not at the desktop