Depends on your current pharmaceutical load. Remember the 60's? (Or was it the 70's?)

That he would be better off springing for a spell checker?

A bigger iPad. A bigger iPad.

The maxiPad?

I think not....

You work inside the oven? Hmm. I guess that might work - if you're really short.

Oats and Rye, typically. Yes.

I dunno about that. These reviews always show me features I've never known were in the OS and some of the thinking and history behind them. Do you need to read these? Of course not, my wife uses OSX and wouldn't understand every fifth word, nor would she care. I look forward to his disassemblies. Just takes me a while to get through them ....

I don't spend a whole lot of time dithering with the OS. I use a computer for it's applications. But the more you know, the more work you can get out of the machines. Still and all, I can't get too wound up about missing a few pixels here and there. Glad somebody does.

You DARE denigrate the OS X God that is John Siracusa*? You miserable infidel!.

How can you NOT bow down to the man who must have spent every waking minute of his life since 10.10 was released in alpha form working on this magnum opus? How can you NOT revel in his insights as to the amount of white space needed to click on a menu bar? How can you NOT bask in the glory of a 25 page Ars article (thank His Noodliness for Adblock).

Philistine.

* Thanks John, I mean really. I've followed you since BYTE Days (not that I understood half of what you were saying). But 25 pages?

The usual user case for this scenario is a company making specialized applications for the iPhone. In which case, the roughly thousand dollars required to gain this functionality is just a sneeze, not even a sniffle. Just because it doesn't fit your particular fantasy (and it doesn't appear you'd be interested in iOS at any price) doesn't mean it's not priced correctly.

Boiling the frog may be a good analogy, although it suffers from a bit from having nothing to do with automobiles.

Apple, and 10.10 is going slower and is more nuanced than Microsoft and Windows 8. You have to change these things slowly, test some concepts, polish things - rather than just jump in and announced HI, I'M NEW, OH, YOUR NOT A TABLET? SORRY! (Metro, I'm trying NOT to look at you).

Clearly, everyone is trying for seamless integration of phones / tablets / desktops / clouds. Some good and some bad will come of this, of course. At least with 10.10, things are quite a bit more subtle and Apple has finally moved a few (just a few) degrees from 'my way or the highway' in that there is more customization of UI elements in 10.10 than has been seen in any version of OS X. You can still use an iPhone with a Windows desktop and and a Windows phone with OS X should you desire. The walled garden has a few open gates yet.

As to what will happen in the future, no one knows. Apple ain't saying and I really don't think Microsoft has any idea.....

Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

Wrap the rascal!

Out of what, thousands of contacts? If you think you're going to have a war with no casualties, you're foolish. They have also dramatically cut their infection rates over the past 30 days due to improving their system.

It will never be perfect, but it works well and it CHEAP. Did I say cheap? Could even work in third world countries like the US.

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job....."

Oh, all right. You've got a point.

It was Bush's fault.

Nice try. Multi task much? Hard for individuals - organizations with thousands of people do it all the time.