Apple CEO rejects notion of iOS-powered laptops

Apple CEO Tim Cook has again rejected the idea of following in the footsteps of rival Microsoft to build a notebook that runs his company's mobile operating system, iOS.

"We feel strongly that customers are not really looking for a converged Mac and iPad," Cook told The Irish Independent, Ireland's largest daily newspaper, in an interview published Sunday. "Putting those two together would not achieve either. You'd begin to compromise in different ways."

But take Cook's comments with a grain -- or more -- of salt. "These are tactical communications, nothing about what they might do, or what they potentially will do," noted Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, in a Monday interview.

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