I didn't charge to absorb a lot of time with the new Mac operating arrangement to see that phones and book computers accept won out over claimed computers at Apple.
Mobile accessories are already amenable for the aggregate of Apple's sales and profits. Now, Apple is authoritative the new Mac arrangement even added like the iOS software that admiral its iPhones and iPads. It's aswell accidentally bottomward the "Mac" name from the Mac OS X operating software, admitting computers will still be alleged Macs, not "Super-sized iPads."
The new system, formally OS X 10.8 and dubbed Mountain Lion, went on auction Wednesday as a $19.99 download from Apple's App Store. It builds on the antecedent system, Lion, which came out endure July.
Mountain Lion is fabricated for a apple area your computer is just one of your accretion devices, forth with your iPhone and your iPad. Apple wants to accomplish it easier to about-face from one to the other, several times a day.
It's already simple to about-face amid iPhone and iPad. For instance, songs and apps you buy on an iPad will automatically pop up on your iPhone through Apple's iCloud online-storage service. Lion has some iCloud features, but Mountain Lion absolutely brings the Mac into the iPhone-iPad family.
That's what I like a lot of about Mountain Lion. It borrows a lot from its adaptable cousin.
The Mac already had such mobile-like appearance as the adeptness to zoom in or out on a MacBook by avidity your fingers on its touchpad. Mountain Lion goes a lot further:
- A notification centermost slides out from the appropriate of the awning to action agenda reminders and the latest mail items. It mimics, down to the accomplishments color, blueprint and font, the way you get Facebook updates, account alerts and added notices on your iPhone.
- The Mac's iChat app has been scrapped in favor of Messages, which is fabricated buzz affable by accumulation the iMessage account for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users to barter texts, photos and video. Now you can forward letters from your Mountain Lion computer to your adaptable friends, or adeptness addition Mountain Lion user from your phone. The way conversations are presented feels added like texting than burning messaging.
- Mountain Lion borrows a "Share" button from iPhone and iPad apps. The iPhoto angel organizer on Lion had that, but it's now congenital into added apps such as the Safari Web browser and the Preview certificate reader. The options change depending on the app. In Safari, for instance, you can forward a Web page by email or column a hotlink on Twitter. In Preview, you can allotment a photo on Flickr or add it to iPhoto.
Facebook affiliation is advancing this fall. You'll be able to absolute who sees your column and add your accepted area through that allotment button. No best will you accept to cut and adhesive links. Mountain Lion will aswell accompany acquaintance advice on Facebook accompany with your Mac's abode book. You charge to assurance on to Facebook alone once, and Mountain Lion takes affliction of the rest.
That "single sign-on" affection is accessible appropriate abroad for added services, including Twitter and Flickr. Already you're active in, you don't charge to admission your username and countersign afresh if accessing that account from addition app.
Mountain Lion brings over addition abstract change from the iPhone.
For the longest time, claimed computers let you install annihilation after question. But with Apple's adaptable devices, you are bound to pre-approved software from the company's App Store. Apple wants to assure you from bad experiences, but it has aswell alone some allegedly controllable apps for abstruse reasons.
Mountain Lion adopts that attendant philosophy, admitting the restrictions aren't as severe. If software you try to install doesn't appear from the App Store, it has to be from a software developer who has registered with Apple for $99. The aggregation doesn't analysis software unless it goes through the App Store, but the Mac checks to accomplish abiding the allotment is valid. A allotment can be yanked if a developer turns out to be evil.
I was denied the adeptness to install Google's photo-editing software, Picasa, acceptable because it was accounting afore the allotment affairs began. It took some sleuthing to amount out how to override that.
Now aback to iCloud, my admired allotment about Mountain Lion. All you charge is an Internet affiliation and an Apple ID - the aforementioned one you actualize for chargeless to buy songs and apps on iTunes. That Apple ID links your acquaintance beyond the assorted devices. The iCloud account comes with 5 gigabytes of chargeless storage; you can pay for more.
Consider Pages, Numbers and Keynote - Apple's versions of Microsoft's accepted Office programs for chat processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Abstracts are automatically stored online through iCloud, unless you change the area to a binder on your computer. It's a tactic Microsoft affairs with its just-announced Office upgrade.
That agency your abstracts chase you wherever you go. Type a book in a certificate on your MacBook and see the changes on the iPad a half-minute or so later. You can admission your files even if you don't accept an Internet connection. Copies are stored on your computer, and changes will be replicated to the iCloud binder already you're aback online.
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