One of the many features that people like about the Mac OS X is spaces, the simple feature that allows the user to have multiple desktops to allow different work spaces and separate applications to allow for more seamless multitasking. For those who try to do thirty things at once on the Mac, spaces is crucial for success. It looks like this feature may soon be coming to another Apple product, the iPad. Strangely, the patent pictures shows the iPad running what looks like OS X (the thought of the Mac OS coming to the iPad is a bit crazy to begin with) and allowing users to place different open applications in different spaces, just as one does on their Mac. Spaces still appears in Mac OS X Lion, alongside the new Mission Control feature. The picture also implies that users would be using specific gestures to move applications into different spaces and to maneuver from space to space. This is an area where we feel that Apple could improve the iOS, particularly on the iPad. Android already has this ability to a certain extent, where a home screen page can be a user-defined running application, such as a calendar, mail, or clock app. With the current multitasking implementation in iOS 4, this isn’t possible. It may be that Apple will enhance these capabilities in iOS 5, which should be unveiled soon. Also, it should be noted that this patent was filed quite a while ago, sometime in the third quarter of 2009, before the iPad was ever released, so this patent may never come to fruition at all. It is still possible we could see this implemented in future versions of the iOS though as well. We will certainly learn what the future of the OS has in store at WWDC in June. As usual, stay tuned by following us on Facebook, Twitter, and/or subscribing to our RSS feed. [Source: Patently Apple] Authors:

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