Prior to Apple’s event yesterday, rumours abounded about iOS being directly integrated into Mac OS X, perhaps replacing Dashboard, but this thinking wrongly dismisses iOS apps as being inferior to their desktop cousins.

Instead, Jobs says Apple has simply learned from and been inspired by its mobile devices; it’s clear that cross-pollination of ideas is the direction the company is heading in rather than integrating iOS directly into Mac OS X.

Read more about my thoughts on Mac OS X 10.7 (‘Lion’) over at TechRadar.