>Or you can view it as mobile being enhanced by commonality of OS with one found on the desktop.
You could, if the mobile didn't have the minority share of the install base. Why would we be okay to enhance the minority at the expense of the majority?
> If the same UI works in both environments...
And that's precisely the thing. it doesn't work in both environments. Windows8 has already showed us what happens when you slap the touchy feely stuff on the desktop and let the user figure it out.
You could, if the mobile didn't have the minority share of the install base. Why would we be okay to enhance the minority at the expense of the majority?
> If the same UI works in both environments...
And that's precisely the thing. it doesn't work in both environments. Windows8 has already showed us what happens when you slap the touchy feely stuff on the desktop and let the user figure it out.