pffffft, this is ludicrous...
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Apple released a developer preview of Mountain Lion today before the new operating system is let out of its cage in the summer.
It's the ninth major iteration of the Mac OS X operating system, replacing Lion, and from Apple's roundup of its features, version 10.8 marks a much closer integration with iOS devices. Apple goes so far to say that it is "inspired by the iPad" - presumably referring to the decision to tie the Mac closer to the App Store.
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The cute UI stuff aside, one of the most significant changes from Lion is Gatekeeper and much closer weaving of the App Store into the Mac.
Thanks to Gatekeeper the default setting of Mountain Lion OS is that you can only run software from Apple-approved sources - unless you can be bothered to dismiss warnings from the system.
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OK, you can turn off Gatekeeper to be able to carry on installing from .dmg's but the fact that it's on by default shows the direction they are going...2 major releases away from Apple-dauthorised apps only. Mark my words!
This is just frikken iCandy crap though:
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The biggest new feature for users (my emphasis) will be Messages: Lion's instant chat feature iChat will be replaced by the Messages app....
Other quirks include deep Twitter integration including the option to tweet straight from Safari and the ability to send any photo on the computer straight to Twitter. "Share Sheets" - drop-down menus in apps and Safari - make it easy to ping files and webpages around via email or Messages.
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I don't even know or care how twatter works, and I uninstalled icq and skype for a reason....
where's a facepalm pic when you need one.
How's Linux desktop doing these days?
