"Taking aspects of the iPad and iPhone into Mac OS X makes a lot of sense, just as iOS took so much from Mac OS X - they both share the core code, after all," Gruman writes.
Infoworld's Galen Gruman detailed six " Lion Letdowns," most of them related to this trend.Īnd Erica Saudan, at TheUnofficialAppleWeblog, posted on " Lion: Ten things that bug me." Lion took a bit longer to launch applications, but loaded Websites faster, and was considerably faster in file compression.īut the "iOSification" of the Mac continues to divide users. "Overall, with the exception of the application launching test it seems like there are few differences in speed between the two operating systems," wrote Adam Dachis. "At least on our benchmark tests, it appears that Lion will provide the same speedy performance as its predecessor," wrote CNET's Rich Brown. For the fiscal year, Mac sales totaled 16.8 million, bringing the total number of Mac users worldwide to about 60 million.Ī speed test comparison by CNET found almost no meaningful difference between Snow Leopard and Lion.
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Apple also announced a new record for Mac sales: 4.89 million, or 760,000 more than in any previous quarters. Two months later, by the end of Apple's fourth quarter, another 5 million had downloaded it, perhaps in part enticed by a dramatic price cut, to $30 from $129. The next day, Apple announced a million downloads had already taken place, making Lion the fastest-selling Mac OS release in the company's history. SLIDESHOW: Mac OS X Lion's top 20 features NETWORK WORLD's HOTTEST TECH ARGUMENTS: Read them all here Those included multi-touch gestures, system-wide support for full screen apps, revamped Mail application, a new way to see easily all running applications and active windows (called Mission Control), the now-built-in Mac App Store (analogous to the iOS App Store for finding and downloading programs), and Launchpad, a full-screen, grid-like display of available applications, which can be re-arranged and grouped into folders. Lion, or formally Mac OS X 10.7, was finally released July 20, 2011, with over 250 new features.
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