There's not a whole lot to gain by making the desktop increasingly iOS-ish. Most of the iOS advantages don't 'fit' quite right, the existing base would scream, and the market they'd theoretically be chasing with said changes will have been happily working on their iPads for years.
As far as convergence goes, what I'm starting to wonder, is if it wouldn't make more sense to add a docking solution to iOS instead. After all, Moore's law is bringing desktop-class power to the iPad far faster and more convincingly than any case for iOS style interaction on the desktop is being made.
So the question then arises, whether it would make more sense to support a docked iOS 'mode' -- allowing use of desktop-style app UI and interaction (keyboard/mouse) in native iOS apps -- or just run OS X virtualized when docked (with some shared file bucket between the OSes)?
As far as convergence goes, what I'm starting to wonder, is if it wouldn't make more sense to add a docking solution to iOS instead. After all, Moore's law is bringing desktop-class power to the iPad far faster and more convincingly than any case for iOS style interaction on the desktop is being made.
So the question then arises, whether it would make more sense to support a docked iOS 'mode' -- allowing use of desktop-style app UI and interaction (keyboard/mouse) in native iOS apps -- or just run OS X virtualized when docked (with some shared file bucket between the OSes)?