News Update: Apple Inc. Files Touch-Screen iMac Patent

Reports have surfaced Tuesday that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) filed for a patent in January showing a touch-screen iMac desktop with the ability to switch back and forth from two operating systems, and is equipped with a swivel display, reports the Telegraph.

"Imagine having an iMac on your desktop one minute and a gigantic iPad the next," reads a statement on the website Patently Apple. "Imagine playing iGames on this dream machine. Imagine reading a double-page book on this. Apple takes the mystery out of how OS X could finally co-exist with iOS on a Mac, and you've got to see this one to believe it."

The patent is titled "Transitioning with modes of input" and was filed January 14 with the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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[nelsk3]

Finally Mac and Pc will unify!!! Dual operating systems without a hassle!!!

[Titanz91]

@failinggeneration Apple refers two it as OS 10.

[Titanz91]

@schmic89 Not exactly. It is widely accepted as also being pronounced OH ES Ex, not just OH ES TEN.

[TehMacTipz]

@failinggeneration X means 10.

[failinggeneration]

@schmic89

ummmm its actually OSX10

because OS Ten

could be any operating system

which is actually what "OS" stands for

the X in OSX indicates you are speaking of apple's OS

so when referring so Apple's computer OS you say OSX or OSX 1-10 or whatever you use

[schmic89]

It's pronounced OS Ten, not OS EX. Cool looking patent, by the way.