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An Early Look At Mac OS X 10.8
adeelarshad82 writes "Earlier today Apple announced their next OS, Mountain Lion. According to an early look, OS X 10.8 does more to integrate social networking and file-synching into a personal computer than any other OS. It tightly integrates with the whole Apple ecosystem that includes iOS devices and the free iCloud sharing service. Moreover Mountain Lion adds a powerful new line of defense against future threats where a malware app is prevented from running even if it is deliberately downloaded to a computer. Even though Apple's clearly got a lot of fine-tuning to do—and possibly a few features to add, there's no doubt that Mountain Lion already looks very fine." Update: 02/16 15:04 GMT by T : New submitter StephenBrannen writes with some more details culled from CNET. The newest OS X has now been released to developers, with an official release date planned for this summer. "Mountain Lion, as it is called, will further blur the lines between iOS and its Mac OS. iOS features that are being ported include: Messages (replacing iChat), Notification Center, Game Center, Notes, and AirPlay mirroring. Also new to Mac OS is the addition of Gatekeeper, which should help prevent malware attacks on Apple products. Not announced is whether Siri will be ported to the Mac."
This, pretty much. The OS is set to, by default, spread FUD about apps not coming from the App Store. Being the default, it's as good as there being no other option, because users don't know enough to tell the difference.
How does this proposed feature indicate that apps must come from the App Store in the future?
It doesn't, but he has to find some pretense for spreading anti-Apple FUD.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Good thing that Apple doesn't intend to patent moronic posts to websites, else you'd be in trouble.
Fandroids hate facts.
The point I was making is the fact that Windows 8 has been on open beta for about a year, in the hands of real users, and we are just now hearing about the new Mac Os, but no, Mac did it first.
It's so groundbreaking! So visionary! No one else had ever thought to do something like this before!!
You mean like putting a touch interface over Windows 7?
Are you referring to Windows 8? If so you're wrong, Metro is much more groundbreaking and innovative than the icon and window based touch interface in every other touch UI including iOS and Android.
>So Apple is to blame because the system that exists where most electronics manufacturing occurs in countries like China simply due to the fact they make more profit? I see where does HP and Dell fall in line as (by all accounts) they make many more computers than Apple in China?
I specifically stated that they deserve more blame(not the only one to face blame) because they make more per iDevice/Macbook than Dell or HP or anyone else and thus are in a better position than them to pay a little more. HP was about to get out of the PC business because the margins are so thin, Dell is also suffering these days. So while they definitely deserve a lot of blame, Apple deserves more blame for this.