![]() 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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