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Apple previews Mac OS X Lion [video]

Summary: Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Vice President Craig Federighi offer a look at Lion, the next version of Mac OS X. The demo shows a new feature called Mission Control, which combines the Expose, Dashboard, and Spaces applications of OS X with full-screen apps.

Sam Diaz

By Sam Diaz for Between the Lines |

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Vice President Craig Federighi offer a look at Lion, the next version of Mac OS X. The demo shows a new feature called Mission Control, which combines the Expose, Dashboard, and Spaces applications of OS X with full-screen apps. The new operating system is due to ship in summer 2011.

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  • RE: Apple previews Mac OS X Lion [video]

    Now that Apple has named 10.7 "Lion" one should stop and think about the significance of the naming scheme that Apple has used for OS X and ponder what Apple is implying to the public and developers.

    As noted "why is the lion the king of the jungle?" because the lion is at the top of the food chain... It would also be reasonable to consider that "Lion" (10.7) marks the last revision of the OS X family, with a complete overhauling of the OS to make it's way in 3 or so years as an yet unknown naming scheme for system 11.

    Consider that snow leopard (10.6) was not much in the way of really dramatic features as compared to leopard (10.5) was to tiger (10.4). 10.7 is introducing a combination of iOS technologies with OS X.... but this is being done more of less at a higher level of engineering requirements for look and feel. It is not a deep level structural engineering issue as seen in previous revisions of the OS.

    It stands reasonable to think that Apple's long term plan is an OS that is engineered from the ground up to be highly scalable... thus, regardless of what type of device you use, your data can live in the cloud and applications simply interface to that data, based on the current abilities of the device. Thus, at work you have a 24 core Mac, on the road you use your iPhone and use the same data.... This sort of scalability of the OS, devices and application/tools would work nicely with a 500000-sq.-ft. facility located in Charlotte, N.C. that Apple is building.
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  • RE: Apple previews Mac OS X Lion [video]

    Apple will invest in mac as they announced mac os x 10.7 lion. And I guess for this information that 7-inch with two cameras ipad is prepared, because 9.7-inch just like the toy designed by video fans who want to creat an paid software like ifunia to earn money.
    pennwarren
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  • I see they *finally* decided...

    ...that maximizing the window means "full screen" instead of "kind of larger". :)

    It's only taken them what, 26 years? (laughing)
    wolf_z
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  • RE: Apple previews Mac OS X Lion [video]

    @ wolf_z

    "It's only taken them what, 26 years? (laughing)"

    Wow, they again copied one of the ancient and more than a quarter century established Amiga UI features? Congratulations to those clever Apple coders. For this kind of "innovation" their jobs must be the cheapest of all coders on earth.
    ulfgillard
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  • OMG! Mac OS Lion is so....

    underwhelming!!!!<br><br>But, there will be people who will go out and plunk down $2000 or $3000 on a Mac just so they can have their Lion. <br><br>BTW, people, the common house cat hasn't been used yet in Apple naming convention, and the house cat is, by many estimates, the best hunter in the world. So, after Lion should come "kitty-cat". ;)
    adornoe
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  • Doesn't LaunchPad

    highly resemble Program Manager, let's see, way back in Win 3.1?
    sackbut
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  • RE: Apple previews Mac OS X Lion [video]

    One of the things I hate the most with Tech presentations is precisely demonstrated by Federighi, VP: The overwrought and senseless vocabulary, the explanations as if we were idiots ("Now, when you go to sleep, first lay down, then close your eye--easy"), and the hyperbole of genius ("the bread now come pre-sliced, no more knife; we are brilliant!). Lion may be good but the way this is presented is so inauthentic and swaggeresque that my first thought is "skip the upgrade."
    techai
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  • RE: Apple previews Mac OS X Lion [video]

    @sackbut: I was thinking the SAME thing! I used to like the Program Manager in Windows 3.11, but Windows 95 stopped all that. I really get sick of Apple pretending all this stuff was "invented" by them. I've been using virtual desktops, aka. "Spaces" in Linux for as long as I can remember. Expose and Mission Control look like rip offs of some Beryl/Compiz effects. Full screen apps are nothing new or special. The App Store? Come on, Linux and other Unix based operating systems have had downloadable software repositories for ages. About the only thing that's really new is the gestures, but who really cares? This update should have been *free* if this is the best they can come up with! Very underwhelming. Not to mention, some of the "features" are quite annoying and not the way I like to use a computer. I hope you can turn some of this new UI crap OFF, otherwise I guess I'll never upgrade :-(
    datatracer
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  • RE: Apple previews Mac OS X Lion [video]

    I am just waiting for the next new "invention" by Apple, wobbly windows, snapping, cubed 3d desktops, etc.? I'm sure some UI developer at Apple is working on it, hah hah
    datatracer
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