According to LOOPRumors, Apple intend to host a special event in the next sixty days to reveal a refreshed, touchscreen iMac, and will come preinstalled with both OS X and iOS. A hybdrid iMac/iDevice, as it were.
Needless to say, it’s a lie, and you have to be pretty gullible to believe it. While it looks likely that Apple will try to merge OS X and iOS over time, it’s not going to happen in the next “sixty days.”
OS X 10.7 is at least a year away, and the next Apple event is in two months, and is Apple’s annual iPod event. There’s no time for them to announce anything, and hacking Snow Leopard to run iOS apps isn’t a simple task within the scope of an iterative point update.
So this rumor’s dumb, and should be disregarded. That said, it’s also probably an accurate look at the future of Mac desktops sometime in the next five years. An iOS emulator running on a touchscreen Mac with a Dashboard-like presentation is probably the minimum we can one day expect for Apple to deliver.
[via BGR]
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