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02/25/10-5: 00 PM PT Apple latest iteration of OS X, Lion, includes some functionality inspired by iOS, the system designed specifically for the iPhone and iPad. As iOS, Lion comes with a built in app store. One issue is whether Apple will make an effort to corral the most--if not all--of the software developed for OS X and make it available only through the Mac App Store, a move that would probably be considered too control--even for Apple.
However, the lion is primarily a "UI evolution, rather than a feature back end upgrade" Appitalism founder and CEO Simon Buckingham. Mac OS X Lion features Mission Control, a new view of Mac; Launchpad, a new app; full-screen applications that fill the entire screen Mac; and of course, the new Mac App Store.
Mission Control provides a "bird's eye view of each app and running on your Mac," said Monica Sarkar representative of Apple. "Launchpad makes it easier than ever to find and launch any app. multi-touch gestures give you a natural and intuitive way to interact, like pinching your fingers to zoom and duplicate it left or right to turn a page."
Mac OS X Lion-Mission ControlWith the wild popularity of its iHandhelds--iPad, iPhone and iPod--the wonder Apple has incorporated a slew of iOS features OS X.
"IPad has inspired a new generation of innovative features in Scorpio," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing.
These characteristics are equipped with a dizzying array of moniker with trademark. "Conversations" automatically groups related messages into a single timeline. "Launch" copy files wirelessly from one Mac to another.
"Versions" automatically save the later versions of a document, with further Browse, edit, and restore options. "Resume" apps exactly as they were left to close or restart. And "filevault" disk encryption provides for local and external drives, with the possibility to erase data instantly.
"I suspect that all these new features a hint at an accelerated pace announcement," Buckingham of Appitalism told MacNewsWorld. "Apple probably will move to twice yearly and iOS operating system updates that Android not catching up to them."
The new features of Leo could tip the stricter controls on Mac software--even more restrictive, perhaps, than those applicable to iOS the App Store.
Still, Apple iDevices Leone and are different animals, said Herbert Tsang, Ph.d., a bioinformatics researcher and instructor at the Simon Fraser University School of Computing Science.
"Through the App Store, Apple's tight control over their software iDevices is famous, ' Tsang said MacNewsWorld. "There is no indication, however, that the App Store [Mac] will be the only way to get the Mac software".
A lion in roaming in pristine Apple ecosystem might suggest also that walls still more is on the way. However, the Act of constructing those walls would probably leave clues, "how to make perfectly iOS apps available on the Mac platform, which is what might be looking for if you had thought of Leo involved issues of control," Buckingham of Appitalism told TechNewsWorld. "I don't see anyone, though."
In fact, coupling Mac App Store too tightly and seamlessly to the Mac would be a "step backwards" in the advancement of technology, Tsang of SFU noted.
Simply having an app store available on a Mac, however, "is a way for individual developers to sell their software and will be a great advantage," he said. "The new integration ... Lion in Mac OS X is a way to benefit from individual software developers. Is an effort to offer alternatives, rather than exclusive.
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Apple is notably absent from the CES, that has been dominating the news of the world tech since it started Wednesday, so the time of its opening Mac App Store may be intended to turn the focus away from Las Vegas to Cupertino--at least for a moment. Packed as it is with new androids, CES represents "the gravest threat to Apple's current position," said Pund-IT analyst Charles King from the show floor.
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