![]() Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ![]() US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account So what do you think? Will you buy it? Take a quick gander at a video we put together with material from Apple, then a gallery of screenshots – and last but not least, your chance to chat up a storm about this major Mac development in the comments. When it comes to its two operating systems, the company seems to believe living together is good enough. (You might want to do this for your malware prone-parents, say.)ĭevelopers are going to have to make two separate versions of apps they want on Mac and iOS for some time to come, and that’s just fine with Apple. Apple is giving a hefty push to the Mac app store, which benefits from a security feature called Gatekeeper where you can limit installations to just Mac store apps. (How much that will cost, we don’t know Apple isn’t announcing a price yet, or a launch date more precise than “late summer.”)īut don’t expect iOS to go hog-wild and bring its apps on board in future versions. This new younger partner is about to give the Mac a new lease on life. At the grand old age of 12, OS X was starting to seem a little too same-y with each iteration. So things are going to be a lot more fun around the edges of the Mac OS – which is no bad thing. It’s a boon for Twitter users (Twitter readers, not so much). That means you can sit and take photos of yourself and instantly tweet them, to your heart’s content. Or a “share sheet,” which effectively means developers are going to be able to put Twitter buttons everywhere? Mountain Lion will already let you tweet from all standard OS X apps such as Safari and Photo Booth. What’s not to like about Airplay, which can seamlessly mirror your desktop on an HDTV? Or a separate Notes app, where you can attach notes to the desktop like stickies? Or Game Center, which will mean a lot more cross-device play? You get the sense the Mac is going to be happy with its new roommate. Admittedly, the thought of being able to immediately text anyone with an iPhone for free from your desktop is so unbelievably cool, it can bring on an attack of the vapors. But what it really wants you to do is use Apple’s seamless texting replacement of the same name. Instead, here’s iMessage, which will still let you IM your contacts (if you must). Bouncing icons in the dock? Who needs them when you’ve got Notifications, which appear in classy banners down the side of the screen? The venerable antique Instant Message software, iChat, a 2002 vintage? A stupid wagon-wheel coffee table, says iOS. SEE ALSO: Apple Mountain Lion Embraces Flickr and Vimeo SharingĪnd Mac OS X has had to throw out some of its stuff. Most of it is designed to sync up so it is exactly the same. Reminders, iMessage, Game Center, Notifications, iCloud and Twitter integration - all iOS’s most intimate stuff is here, and it all pretty much looks the same as it does on the iPad. If Lion was a toothbrush in the bathroom, Mountain Lion is a chest of drawers in the bedroom. Well, here’s the next phase in the relationship, and iOS has practically moved in to Mac’s house. Some of us began to wonder, with some cause, whether Mac OS X and the iOS were heading for a marriage down the road. It introduced such iOS-like features as multitouch gestures on the trackpad and a “launchpad” of apps that looked just like the iPad’s home screen. Coming in the wake of the iPad, it was clearly influenced by the success of the device. (Another 50 percent of us still favor Snow Leopard). OS 10.7, or Lion, launched in July 2011 30 percent of Mac users now have it installed. It’s almost as if it makes your Mac moonlight as an iPad.īut it is categorically not the one OS to rule them all, if such a thing is even on Apple’s radar. Mashable was briefed on the new Mac OS prior to the announcement.īottom line? It’s a few more vital steps closer to fully connecting the experience you have on the Mac with the world of the iPad and the iPhone – dumping iChat in favor of iMessage and Twitter, to take the most radical example. EST Thursday, the developer preview version of Mountain Lion became available to Apple’s legions of app makers. That’s when Apple will launch the latest big cat-themed Mac OS X, version 10.8: Mountain Lion.Īt 8:30 a.m. Mac users, start dreaming of how much cooler your desktop or laptop experience could be this summer.
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