You blind-sided me there, but it's my own fault.
I should have made it clear that I wasn't envisioning Apple's "renting" OS X, rather I was envisioning OS X's migration to the cloud as another step in Apple's relentless push towards ever smaller computers, in keeping with its position as, above all, a hardware manufacturer.
> So don't lay this at Steve Jobs feet.
And under any circumstances, considering his well known penchant for "implementing other people's ideas," it's difficult to lay anything at Steve Jobs's feet authoritatively.