(The font and size changes sync over to your iPhone/iPad, but not photos.) You can also pinĪ note to your desktop to make sure it grabs your attention. Notes is cool: you can add photos to your notes, or change the font styles and sizes. On the Mac, you type a reminder to yourself it appears simultaneously Through your free iCloud account, all of these apps are synced instantly and smoothly across all your Apple gadgets. The juiciest payoff here is the suite of Mac apps that now mimic what’s on the iPhone/iPad, like Reminders, Well, don’t look now, but Mountain Lion brings even more of the iPhone/iPad features to the Mac. Lion features like Full Screen mode, Auto SaveĪnd Launchpad are total iPad rip-offs, too if Apple hadn’t stolen these features from itself, it would surely be suing for copyright infringement. Trackpad gestures simulated the multitouch gestures on an iPad screen.
When Lion came along last summer, the big changes were all about making the Mac more like an iPad. The real shocker, though, is that for the first time, Apple decided to give tech reviewers an early, early version of Mountain Lion - not just months before its release to the public, but even before its release Now you’ll have to decide once a year whether or not to succumb to paying annually the $30 (or whatever Apple winds up charging) for the privilege of remaining current. It will start this summer with Mac OS X 10.8, code-named Mountain Lion, only a year after the Lion version was released. There had been rumors swirling that Apple was back-burnering the Mac, but that’s hard to believe after Thursday’s announcement: from now on, Apple will update Mac OS X once a year.
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