During the company’searningscall, Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced that its newest operating system, Mac OS X Lion, would be launching tomorrow. This confirms therumorsthat have been swirling over the last few days.
OS X Lion is an extensive upgrade to Apple’s OS X operating system, bringing sweeping changes across the OS. The addition of features like full-screen applications, Launchpad and extensive gesture support have led many to make correlations between Apple’s iOS and OS X platforms. This has sparked rumors that Apple could bemerging these twointo one at some point in the future.
Over 250 new featureswere introduced in OS X Lion, with many of them polishing the standard features of the OS. Apple has also introduced a bevy of new API’s for developers, allowing them to take advantage of safety and stability enhancements like application sandboxing, versioning and auto-restore of application states. Many of these are being applied to applications by developers now.
The Next Web has taken an in-depth look at OS X Lion over the last several weeks and our review will be available tomorrow. Please do check back to get the full story on Apple’s latest ‘big cat’.
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Mac OS X Lion will be offered exclusively from the Mac App Store at a price of $29.99.
Story byMatthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino was Managing Editor at TNW. He’s no longer with the company, but you can follow him on Twitter.(show all)Matthew Panzarino was Managing Editor at TNW. He’s no longer with the company, but you can follow him onTwitter.
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