There’s a lot of interesting stuff going on in the hybrid space, for another example, and I for one don’t see the Android/Windows experiments as going nowhere, based on the majority Win machines eventually becoming mostly touch-capable as the tech to add it becomes more commoditized. That is, I can see a number of scenarios where I might want to dip into one of my Android apps in the middle of some Win work (though apparently Chrome OS may produce yet other ways of working).

My long-term plan was a top Apple laptop running Win in VM Ware – but since Windows will soon have modern UI versions of its major apps, the Windows my work requires feels less and less like a value add on a non-touch enabled device going forward.

And I’m not the kind of guy who’ll build his own Hackintosh, so the future could see me (wistfully) leaving the Apple fold entirely.

Still, there’s an iPad on my shopping list…..