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Originally Posted by pl001
OSX on a laptop is not suitable for touch screen mobile use. It's not competing for the same buyers as Win8/RT is.
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Never said it was. The problem is that as easy as a touchscreen is to use, it is a horrible interface for real productivity. You can't type very fast on the darn things, for one. Selecting text is a chore. And editing photos beyond applying presets? Forget about it!
Once you add a keyboard and a mouse to a tablet, you really do have a laptop. And by then, you might as well have a laptop, and then we're back to talking about OS X, which IMO is still best-of-breed when it comes to productivity.
The issue is that Win8/RT is trying to make a tablet into a productivity device, and it just plain isn't going to work. My PowerBook has a 15" screen - what tablet comes close to that size? Sure, it only has 1.5GB of RAM, but it also has 80GB of permanent storage, plus a DVD writer. What tablet has that kind of data capacity? Tablets are about consuming content, not creating it. And no OS is going to change that reality.