Apple have spent the last few years of gallivanting with iPods, iPads and iPhones. To their credit they’ve built a great infrastructure for these different platforms but isn’t it time that they focus on what really got them to the ball?

OS/X is probably their most important product since turning it all around. Anyone could should be able to build a standalone device that functions decently but OS/X is an entire traditional operating system and a secure one at that.

The problem is that Windows 7, although still struggling under the same Microsoft architecture, is a much better OS and something incredibly close to OS/X. The way to catch up? Include OS/X Apps within an app store, similar to Steam but for the wide range of varying OS/X applications. I know it sounds crazy but hear me out, I come with reasons.

1. iPhone & iPad apps are cheap because people are cheap. It’s driven down prices and I would suspect a similar thing would happen with OS/X applications.
2. It would cut down on piracy.
3. Give those great applications on the platform some focus and advertising.
4. Make installing applications even easier, including easier application management.

Still not convinced? Well OS/XI must be in the works, or at least being thought of, and I can’t think of many features I’d like to see. Maybe that’s a different post though.