Watching the video of Chris Pirillo's Dad using Mac OS X for the first time is pretty eye opening. It shows that Apple's process of bringing some of the lessons they learned with iOS back to the Mac is paying off. Keeping power user features around but shrouding them in an easy to use and recognizable iOS like presentation is a delicate balance but one that Apple seems to be doing quite well in, well at least better than Microsoft
Jim Dalrymple at The Loop
If Apple were trying to make Mountain Lion more like iOS we would be touching the screen of our computers to interact with out apps instead of using the keyboard and mouse.
I think commenter Moeskido said it best
Those claims allow easy comparisons with Metro and Windows 8, without having to examine the huge philosophical differences between “make improvements specific to the platform” and “dump everything together in a continuing attempt to appease conservative IT people.”
