Once again, Apple is using what they’ve learned from working on iOS, iPhone/iPod, and iPad to improve Mac OS X. We first heard about the fancy features that Mac OS X Lion would bring back in October at the Back to the Mac event.
We’re taking our best thinking from iPad and bringing it all to the Mac with Mac OS X Lion, available in summer 2011. Here’s a preview of some of the top features.
Some of the features to look out for include:
- The Mac App Store – the App Store for your laptop/desktop
- Launchpad – app launcher that works just like you would on an iPad and other mobile devices
- Full Screen Apps – kill the distractions and focus on one thing at a time.
- Mission Control – a bird’s eye view of everything running on your Mac
- Gestures and animations – multi-touch gestures using your touchpad and responsive on-screen animations bring a lifelike feel to your desktop
- Autosave – no need to obsessively save your work as you go. Lion does it for you
- Versions – records the evolution of a document you’ve created, giving you the ability to go back in time to previous versions.
- Resume – return right where you left off with all your apps exactly as you left them through restarts and updates.
It’s interesting to see Mac OS X basically changing the paradigm of desktop and laptop computing. See all the details at Apple.