Today Apple announced a preview of the upcoming release of Mac OS X, called the Mountain Lion, heavily inspired by the iPhone. With this, the company follows in its tendency to leave their computer system ever closer to the IOS.
Thus, the idea launched in 2010 with "Back to Mac" (bring all the innovations created for the iPhone back to Mac) continues in full force, with several innovations that have emerged in iOS 5 iPhone and iPad being transferred for the Mac With this, the integration of computer and iDevices further increase.
And there are few resources adopted. The most anticipated of them finally comes to life: IMessage for Mac, allowing messages from iPhone, iPod and iPhone are also read and written from the computer. A public beta is available now and you can download it directly from Apple's server.
Another typical feature of iOS wins the Mac: the Central Notification, with banners that appear and disappear each notice of any application. The Growl climbed on the roof.
Reminders, Notes and Game Center will get a desktop version, all synchronizing information between mobile devices and computer. To gain Twitter integration to the system, as in iOS. The share button will also be in various programs of the system to easily publish on social networks, as in iPhone / iPad.
One really cool thing that the Mac will also inherit is the Mirroring screen via AirPlay, which will see the computer screen TV in HD, as happens today with the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2.
Check out a video tour of the new features:
With this strategy, Apple has in mind two things: to attract to the current Mac users iPad and iPhone (many of them have already entered the Mac world because of IOS devices) and prepare for a possible future in which the Mac and the iPhone will run a kind of "iOS X", with applications compatible with each other. At least that's what I believe.
