Originally Posted by
pdxer
actually, they did. both ios and mac os x are based on os x.
you're thinking of a tablet running mac os x, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. mac os x is not a touch-based operating system. it would be a dismal failure. there have been windows tablets for the past decade. how many of those do you see in use?
what apple did was take their desktop os (mac os x) and redesign it for touch (ios). that's why it's as successful as it is.
iOS is not OS X in the sense most people mean in; the fact that there is a second sense of OS X (the Darwin kernel, etc) which runs behind OS X is an irrelevance, and is rather like saying "Android is Linux" -- well, if you're an embedded Linux developer looking to modify the Android
OS, that's a
useful truth... for pretty much anyone else, it's a factoid that happens to be true, but not in anyway useful.
To most people, what OS something runs is the combination of the UI (
almost completely different in both cases, even if it's something that runs on TOP of the underlying OS kernel and libraries, which might or might not be hte same) and even more importantly,
the software it can run. And in that case, Android, iOS, OS X, and Linux are all almost entirely unrelated.
they're not gadgets.
"Gadget" is in the eye of the beholder. :
Originally Posted by
Kagehitokiri
RT pro only runs full operating system in desktop mode correct?
The opposite: while RT still has a desktop mode, you pretty much can't get software for it. RT only takes software compiled specifically for RT, which is only available via Microsoft's store, which only accepts "modern UI" software (at this point, at least.)
They're both full x86 PCs (and could be reformatted with Win 7, Linux, whatever you want, although they'd be pretty awkward with anything but Windows 8 or maybe the touch flavors of Ububtu.)
Originally Posted by
planemechanic
Marketing does not create repeat purchases, and Apple iPad owners have a much higher retention rate than Android owners. The same is true for the iPhone. It is the USER EXPERIENCE that sells, and retains Apple products.
Don't discount ecosystem lock-in.