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Apple has already promised to keep the focus on new iOS software for its mobile devices and new OS X software for its Macintosh computers at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco.
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Currently running on Windows only, new versions will soon be available that will address mobile applications and run on OS X.
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Of course, the growing profile of mobile editions of Windows, OS X and Linux opens up consumers to new security threats, too.
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Apple, by contrast, doesn't need to give OS X a radical mobile makeover or gin together an iPad-esque tablet -- hey, it's already got the iPad.
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Jony Ive, who was promoted to oversee both hardware and software, is reportedly shattering silos and pulling developers from the Mac OS X side of things to help keep the radically retooled mobile OS on-track.
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So you can see how Apple is pushing OS X much closer to its mobile and tablet counterparts.
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Making it more difficult to get an Atom-powered machine running OS X might be a sign Apple is preparing to introduce its own mobile processors, built around the technology it acquired from P.
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Named "Mountain Lion, " the new version of OS X is the clearest sign yet of Apple's belief that the mobile, laptop and desktop world are destined to converge and that Apple wants to be a catalyst.
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