Category: Apple
It’s All About the Experience, Baby
There’s been a lot of talk about if Apple is making OS X more like iOS or not. It’s gone from a debate to a philosophical battle, but I think everyone’s missing a big point:
Mountain Lion is all about the features, baby. 1
Just look at the new apps Apple is adding to OS X:
(And that’s without talking about AirPlay mirroring, Gatekeeper or other features that aren’t stand-alone apps.)
Comparing Mountain Lions
Apple gave the world a sneak peek at Mac OS X Mountain Lion. It boasts some impressive new features, integrating some of iOS 5’s most popular utilities. But instead of merely telling you what they are, we decided to also compare Apple’s Mountain Lion to … a REAL Mountain Lion!
Hilarious.
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‘Moving In Together’
And then yesterday, OS X and iOS announced an impromptu decision. Many had already (reluctantly) seen it coming but most chose to ignore the possibility, hurt that OS X might do that to them (to them!). But now it’s real, the two are moving in together, and that means a lot of things for the end-user.
The only thing I dislike is the use of impromptu. Mountain Lion is the result of years of work and planning.
On Mountain Lion and iOS
If Apple were trying to make Mountain Lion more like iOS we would be touching the screen of our computers to interact with out apps instead of using the keyboard and mouse.
Agreed.
26 Billion iMessages Sent
More iOS Devices Sold in 2011 Than All Macs ... Ever
The iOS platform as a whole reached 316 million cumulative units at the end of last year. The iOS platform overtook the OS X platform in under four years and more iOS devices were sold in 2011 (156 million) than all the Macs ever sold (122 million).
The graph says it all. Holy shit.
‘We’re Starting To Do Some Things Differently’
John Gruber, on Apple’s private briefings regarding Mountain Lion:
We were sitting in a comfortable hotel suite in Manhattan just over a week ago. I’d been summoned a few days earlier by Apple PR with the offer of a private “product briefing”. I had no idea heading into the meeting what it was about. I had no idea how it would be conducted. This was new territory for me, and I think, for Apple.
Mac OS X Mountain Lion
Apple: Contact Sharing Notification Coming in Future Software Update
What is Apple?
John Gruber, opening his article about the Steve Jobs bio:
What is Apple at heart: a software company, or hardware company?
This is a perennial question. The truth, of course, is that Apple is neither. Apple is an experience company. That they create both hardware and software is part of creating the entire product experience.
Bingo.