How is manually kicking off the section of code that is supposed to commit information to the storage medium different from it happening automatically? Either way, you are trusting the computer to do it for you.

Don’t get me wrong, ZFS is the best thing to happen to storage since the hard drive, but that doesn’t mean Apple it going to adopt it. The fact people don’t even understand what ZFS is or what it’s good for, as is evident by the statements made in this article alone, provide Apple little reason to trying to cross the now plentiful red tape to get it into their OS. Since Oracle has taken over the ship there is a very different attitude toward sharing and open source in general, one very similar to Apple’s honestly, but the problem is this attitude does not lend itself well to Apple adopting ZFS.

More over I don’t know that Apple is going to prioritize creating a next generation FS. Apple goes after bullet points that the public is going to respond to with their wallets, not because they are ones that are necessarily needed. The fact is regardless of the necessity Mac OS X, as well as most OSs aside from Solaris, desperate has for a new, more robust, FS to handle the ever growing data piles we are all amassing and insure their robustness, this isn’t a subject the public understands, and thus isn’t something Apple can market. Apple goes after the “oh geewiz” factor, and file systems simply don’t have that, not yet at least, and the may never manage to get it. After all Apple’s FS tech, aside from some patch work, dates back 30 years. That’s a REALLY long time in the computer world!

The Mac App Store is not about trying to control the apps on osx. The app store for IOS devices is a simply way to find apps “for your type of device”. some developers make the apps build just for the ipad, some that are compatible with multiple devices.
The signs are there that there will be an app store for apple tv. different device, different type of user input. But some apps that already exist for the iphone/ipad can probably be easily adjusted to work correctly on an apple tv.

I believe Apple will be introducing new hardware in the next couple of years that will change how we work and interact with a computer. The Mac App store will be a launchpad for these new types of computers easily taking away the confusing of which app works on which device.

And if this new hardware will launch as well as the ipad did it will probably take a “lion” share of the market