History about to repeat itself?

When I was using a PowerPC based Mac, I could have spit my biscuit across the floor in disbelief as I watched a particular Apple keynote. In said keynote Steve Jobs said that Apple had secretly been working on a version of OSX running on Intel processors for 5 years!

Nobody saw it coming!

As is the way for almost all Apple products, the transition from one CPU to a completely different one was slick, seamless, and incredibly well done. Now all Macs run on Intel processors, which allow them to do fantastic virtualisation and even run windows natively. In fact many people (myself included) think that Windows runs best on the Mac.

Why do I bring this up?

In the desktop / laptop world Intel is king, however they have not had as much luck in the mobile market, where ARM is the most popular processor maker, powering devices like the iPad, although Apple actually use their own CPU that uses Arm technology. Rumours abound that the next version of Windows (in a very familiar sounding move) will work on both intel and ARM!

Macs can now easily run Windows. It will be a huge shock if one day, it may be possible to run Windows natively on an iPad. As more iOS technologies move into OSX, will this be mirrored by Windows mobile technologies moving into windows to create the next mobile friendly windows?

There are even rumours that an Arm version of OSX exists. Where does that leave intel?

More to the point, would anyone want to run windows on an iPad, even if we could?

Apple feedback

Apple have had a feedback form for a number of years at http://www.apple.com/feedback

Here is my latest feature request for iPad
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I have had a stunning idea, it would be great for users, and be very easy to implement.

iTunes has a share photos on your network feature. Allow the photos app on iPad to connect to this, then allow ratings and comments to be added that sync back to your master iphoto library on your Mac.

This will be a killer iOS / Mac integration feature that would be stunningly useful for photographers. Get to it, cool Apple dudes!
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Let's see if this gets into iOS 5. They have implemented a few of my previous suggestions already!


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