Tim Cook Talks About OS X Mountain Lion

The WSJ has interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook and SVP Phil Schiller about the developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion released today. The two stressed that with Mountain Lion Apple was going to move as much functionality as possible from the iPhone and iOS to the Mac.

"We see that people are in love with a lot of apps and functionality here," said Mr. Cook, 51 years old, pointing at his iPhone. "Anywhere where that makes sense, we are going to move that over to Mac."

Mr. Cook said he already thinks of Apple's iOS and OS X operating systems "as one with incremental functionality." He said both laptops and tablets will continue to coexist, but he didn't rule out that the technologies could converge further. When asked if Apples iPhones, iPads and Macs might run the same microprocessor chips, he said: "We think about everything. We don't close things off."


Apple's senior vice president of world-wide marketing said, "We took a logical pass at what the user is going to experience using these products to make it all make sense. This is more than people expect."

In regards to competition from Windows 8, Cook said , "I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple" rather, pressure on the company is "self-induced."

Cook didn't make any comments about future Mac hardware; although, he noted that "the industry at large is trying to copy it in some way, but they will find that it is not so easy."

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