Apple just held its keynote thing to signal the start of its Worldwide Developers Conference. The big three things Apple talked about were Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and its new internet service, iCloud.
Let’s start with Mac OS X Lion: not a whole lot new to report on, feature-wise. Apple mostly covered the stuff they’ve covered before, and I’m not going to repeat all of it. Two very interesting tidbits: it will only be available through the Mac App Store (boo!) and will cost a mere $29.99 (yay!). It installs without any reboots (yay!), and will be available in July (yay!).
As for iOS 5, there’s nothing particularly revolutionary going on here, but it does bring some very, very welcome features to Apple’s mobile operating system. Most importantly: Apple finally implemented a decent notification system – by pretty much copying Android’s notification system pixel-by-pixel, with a dash of Samsung’s TouchWiz. Like I’ve said before – I applaud copying good ideas, so this is great news for iOS users.
Another new feature is an instant messaging application for iOS users that works on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. It’s basically a copy of the many messaging applications available, like WhatsApp – except, of course, it’s iOS-specific, unlike the cross-platform WhatsApp.
The most significant feature? No more PC required. Yes, you read that right: iTunes, the world’s most horrible music player, is no longer required. You can activate straight from the device, syncing is wireless, and updates will be over-the-air, in delta form. Again – not revolutionary, but about damn time.
There’s some other stuff in there as well, but nothing really worth mentioning at this point. It’ll be free, as usual, and will arrive for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and 2, and iPod touch 3rd and 4th generation somewhere this autumn.
The final big thing is iCloud, which is really what its name implies: a service to synchronise all your iOS devices and computers (Mac or PC) via the internet. This includes things like backup to the internet, document syncing via the internet, and all the other things that make sense to be synced over the web. iCloud is free, and signals the death of MobileMe.
Music-wise, every song you buy in the iTunes Music Store can be re-downloaded for each device without any additional costs, and your existing, ripped collection (from CDs or vinyl or whatever) can be added to iCloud as well – this requires iTunes Match, a $24.99/year service that matches your ripped songs against iTunes’ database, and turns the songs it can match into iTunes songs, while songs it can’t match will be uploaded.
Just as with competing services from Amazon and Google, I’m very wary about sending any ripped content to Apple, Google, or Amazon, because for all we know, the RIAA is watching. Even if they aren’t watching every upload, a simple court order might be all that’s required for these mafia organisations to peer into your data. Caution advised.
That’s it for now. At E3, Microsoft also held its keynote which can be summed up as KINECTKINECTKINECTKINECTKINECT (hell, even Mass Effect 3 (!) gets the Kinect treatment, for god’s sake – How To Ruin An Epic Franchise 101), and later tonight – 1 a.m. CET – HP’s CEO Leo Apotheker will keynote at HP’s Discover event in Las Vegas, where he is expected to announce the release of the TouchPad – rumours suggest it will have a worldwide release on June 12. I will probably not be able to report on that until tomorrow morning due to me being, you know, asleep.
Permanently? Or just initially? If it’s permanently, I guess Steve Jobs doesn’t care about those people who live in parts of the world where high speed Internet is still not widely available, and where people still pay by the Megabyte for Internet access. You know, all the millions of people in the world who probably can’t download a 4+ GB OS (thanks to daveak for the size correction. Way bigger than I thought it would be).
Edited 2011-06-06 19:38 UTC
You make a good point but 1.2? Guess again. It is 4.
You’re right. I forgot how big OS X is. If it’s as big as Snow Leopard, then it’s 4.7+ GB. Snow Leopard wouldn’t even fit on a single layer DVD IIRC. It required a double layer one.
There’s no PPC code in Lion, nadda. Plus they’ve dropped a number of old stuff like iSync. They must have optimised heavily to get it into 4GB, knowing that it’s download-only.
Considering Ubuntu fits on a standard CD-ROM, and comes with productivity applications like a full blown office suite, 4GB doesn’t seem optimized at all to me. Seems very bloated actually.
There’s no PPC code in Snow Leopard either. Other than a 2Mb optional Rosetta install. But it still weighs in at over 4.7 GB.
Edited 2011-06-06 19:53 UTC
Well, there you go, they did optimise. They shaved off 700MB. It’s not 4GB for nothing. Drivers will take up a lot of space. The voice file is 700MB alone (I think Apple have moved these to download-on-demand) — and remember Lion includes Lion server, so you get the calDav / Wiki / XSan and administration tools.
I suspect Ubuntu has to ship with more drivers than OS X does. After all, Apple has long had the luxury of controlling what hardware Macs use, so they don’t have to ship drivers for every network card or audio card under the sun, etc.
I know you get Lion Server, but you do not get XSan to the best of my knowledge. XSan is not a standard part of OS X Server. It’s a separate product that costs around $1,000.
Edited 2011-06-06 20:09 UTC
http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/
Edit: I’m just listening to the keynote and I would like to be corrected, I just heard Phill Schiller say that “Server is just a bunch of extra applications you can purchase”. Interesting.
Edited 2011-06-06 20:43 UTC
Not to defend the beast that is OS X, but I’m not so sure using Linux drivers as an example is a good idea. Sure, there are a lot of drivers shipped with most Linux distros, but how many of them actually fully support the hardware they’re meant for? Take sound cards as an example, and see of those Ubuntu drivers can get a full surround setup working without installing anything else (and I mean a real surround, not just a car stereo copy effect).
Don’t know about ubuntu, but fedora supports my on-board surround sound out of the box.
From what I understood from the keynote, the $50 Lion Server would include xsan…
Mac OS includes 32bit and 64bit code in the same image, it also includes a tonne of image and voice files etc. Btw, learn what bloat is defined as: bloat refers to a disproportionate size to features ratio – that the size of the said thing is substantially larger than what it needs to be when compared to the feature set of the said operating system. Going through Mac OS X with a fine tooth comb please point out to me specific examples of bloat – and not this hand waving crap of labelling anything larger than a gig as equally to bloatware.
Yes there is PPC code in Snow Leopard:
Rosetta is the translator where the PPC applications launched, all the PPC dependent code is sucked into Rosetta, converted on the fly when running – you need the PPC code in the libraries which the PPC applications depend upon for Rosetta to be able to run PPC applications. Now that PPC support is gone Rosetta has been removed along with the PPC code in the various libraries.
I wonder if you even get to save/burn a backup copy once it is downloaded? If not, what happens if your hard drive crashes or something? Do you then have to install the previous version of OSX and download Lion all over again?
You can back up the download but I am unsure whether you can burn it to the DVD in some way as to avoid having to go through having to install Snow Leopard then installing Lion. It makes me wonder whether its going to ship on the AppStore first but there is a quiet launch of the physical copy in stores later on. Its all very well for Apple to expect people to download but they’re ignoring the fact that even in their largest market, the United States, access to fast low cost broadband is either out of the reach for many or they’re simply not in areas which provide it.
Oh well, I hope that maybe in July we’ll find out more details when it is released – especially when taking into consideration large deployments etc.
What they could perhaps do is allow to make bootable pen drives, or turn Time Machine backups into bootable restore disks.
That would make more sense, given that some macs don’t have optical drives included anymore.
Apparently in the Lion.app package there is a DMG which you can burn to a CD or thumb drive – if that is the case in the final version then it appears you can do a clean install when it is released
Indeed, that could be very good news if confirmed, though only for the happy fews who know what the internal structure of a .app is and how to “burn” a disk image to an USB pen drive on OSX.
It’s 4GB. Apple seem quite staunch on this. I could imagine two solutions:
1. Go to an Apple store and they will install it for you
2. Go to an Apple store and they will give you a USB-stick with Lion on it
Also Thom I think you didn’t mention that when you buy Lion, it’s free for any other compatible Macs you own.
The Windows / Office value proposition gets more and more ridiculous every day.
My country, Sweden, doesn’t have a single Apple Store…
Edited 2011-06-06 20:07 UTC
Mac users tend to forget that the Mac presence outside USA is meaningless.
Apple has retail stores in the UK, Canada, Japan, Italy, Australia, China, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Spain. In addition, they have online storefronts in 37 countries. I hardly think you assessment that the Mac presence outside the USA is meaningless is accurate.
Worldwide Mac market share is less than 5%.
Sure. But it’s only about 10% in the U.S. Relatively speaking, compared to PCs, Macs still have a very small market share even in the U.S.
Horse crap. You don’t get to a 50 Million+ install base for Snow Leopard alone and have < 5%. Next you’re going to say the 200 million install base of iOS is < 5% of the Embedded Systems market and you’ll do so by citing every POS phone that has an embedded CPU in it to justify your number.
Go and look up the worldwide figures for Mac market share by ANY of the proper venues. They all cite ~5%.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201005-201105
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?…
My Apple fanboy sense is tingling… Here. Have some more of the kool-aid. It’s made by unicorns injecting rainbows into it from their asses don’t you know.
Apple stores sure, but do they sell Mac’s?
We have a few Apple stores(*) in Denmark, they sell iOS products, but mainly brightly colored accessories for iOS products. OS X products seems to be mainly sold via non-Apple stores, like large electronic chains and the limited time offers in supermarkets.
Edit(*): Probably not Apple-owned Apple stores, just authorized vendors only selling Apple-related products.
Edited 2011-06-07 10:34 UTC
You’ve named 10 countries with Apple Stores. If you live in one of those 10 countries (say Germany), unless you live in Hamburg, Munchen, Berlin or Frankfurt, there’s not much you can do. The online store presence is nonexistent in most of the other countries. In Romania, you get a list of the products, and links to some service providers. There’s no online Apple Store. There’s an App Store (no iTunes and no iBook).
In Romania, out of my closest 10 friends, 9 use Macs. We might be an exception, but that is because the hardware is usually 6 months late and 30% more expensive than in the rest of Europe which makes it almost 60% more expensive than in the States.
I don’t find Apple products to be expensive in the States, but in Romania they are exaggerated. In the states, the top model MBA is $1799 on the Apple website. In Romania it’s $2950. That’s a 64% premium. And people wonder why I buy the hardware from the US.
In how many cities of those countries?
Not even resellers? We don’t have any Apple Stores here in Hungary either, but there are quite a few authorized Apple resellers selling all kinds of stuff.
Where did you get your Mac from anyway?
…And 4GB download will empty your pockets. Right?
You’ve never dealt with capped internet, have you?
Edited 2011-06-07 00:23 UTC
Get on the EuroRail and visit the other European stores:
Germany has 5. Switzerland has 3. France has 7. Spain has 2. UK has 29 stores.
That makes 46 stores in Europe with many more to come.
Or you can contact your local rep:
http://www.apple.com/jobs/euro/eu_registration.html
Ask them about all your concerns.
Over here in The Netherlands we have a number of Apple premium resellers. Their shops even mimic Apple stores.
Also a number of bigger stores have Apple sections, including Apple shirt wearing dedicated sales people/Apple experts.
And if you’re lazy you can order stuff on-line and they’ll bring it to your home.
That’s because the Swedes are smart – I mean, they do make Volvos…
Only after buying it from the Dutch
I have a friend in Sweden.
Over there he has bought an iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPad, iPad 2 and a MacBook Air. At home he has 100 Mb/s fiber Internet connectivity.
He lives in a village in the middle of the country, not in the south where the bigger cities are.
The Apple stores in Sweden are sold by Ikea, you have to build them by yourself.
Ok, I go out.
Nah, that cannot be. What IKEA sells is usually relatively cheap, and that is fundamentally incompatible with everything Apple.
Please keep the door open for me when you leave.
I’m not entirely sure, with apple you pay more upfront for hardware, granted in some cases you don’t pay more, but still, apple makes the OS to sell hardware, microsoft is a software house.
You thought he would care about these people? That’s a rather odd assumption to make about Apple. They’ve never shied away from having limited numbers of people use their devices and/or services. Like most businesses, they care about the bottom line of their business and pursue strategies to enhance it. Unlike the suggestion of their late 90’s advertisements, they think more like Microsoft than Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson and Mahatma Gandhi.
The only reason you guys are griping about the DL only status of 10.7 is you wont be able to pirate it off of USENET and burn as many times as you want. LMAO!
Even with a “AppStore only” policy, cracked ISOs will eventually make it to P2P and news groups anyway.
All Apple are doing is inconveniencing those that want to buy their software legitimately.
It’s not like there are hoards of people living in those parts of the world that have a 64 bit iMac in their hut.
Twitter integration, photostream, 1 touch camera…
Another bland WWDC. Still no talk about resolution independence. No revamped interface for iOS.
Yeah I’m bummed. I was hoping Apple would offer a subscription music service. Guess I’m sticking with MOG.
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Not a bad announcement overall.
New notification system, good. Like Thom said, copying good features is a good thing! When companies refuse to copy good features you end up with Windows’ stacked app switcher instead of something useful like Expose.
iCloud. Wicked. I think this is the proper solution to the documents problem on iOS. The easiest solution would have been to make a Documents folder that apps can save to, but this is better. I am very careful with my phone, but it is inherently a fragile device and prone to getting lost. The correct solution is continuous synching to the cloud, not storing things only on the device. This will remove a lot of hacky solutions that various apps have implemented to transfer files to and from their app. Best part of today’s announcement by far.
New OSX.. Looks like a decent incremental upgrade, for an incremental upgrade price. No complaints.
iOS 5. Doesn’t go far enough. Some nice changes for sure, but I was really hoping for some more significant changes to the home screen. I don’t care about widgets and think they’re mostly a useless CPU/memory/battery hog, but what I really want is a quick toggle for wifi/bluetooth. Going into the settings each time is a pain (white whine there). I’m hoping something like this is actually in there, but just wasn’t highlighted today.
Twitter integration – I have no use for it. And why twitter? Why not make it social media integration so I can link it to my facebook?? This smells like some sort of exclusive deal with twitter and it sucks.
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I am sure there is tons of fodder for the haters in that conference.
Lots of cool polish. Nice to see some good ideas from other platforms. I think I am looking forward to all the updates, but the only one I was really wanting, and felt missing was iMessage. I really hope they make the ICD for this open, or at least licensable. I was hoping of iOS like sleep though. Otherwise it is just BBM, stuck on a single platform.
As for OS size: Who is installing OS X on such constrained hardware? Not many devices would run 10. smoothly, that have a HDD less than 40GB.
As for download only: I just spend 4 months living in a place with dial-up-only, so I feel for these people. If I was still in that situation, I would buy the $29 update, but not download it, then get a friend to burn me a copy off TPB. But I suppose if you had _no_ internet, I’d likely feel justified skipping the mac store purch part of my plan…
The twitter integration is probably due to Zuckerberg not being a huge iPhone/Apple fan who doesn’t really hide that fact… And what else is there to sync with? Anyway – you can link your twitter with fb so you synchronize your spam if that’s what you want :p
Regarding your iOS criticism, it’s true that it’s more evolutionary than revolutionary. Not too impressed, most of the time it was a “finally” feeling I got, except for 2 moments: 1) when I saw location based reminders, which is pretty cool, and 2) when they presented iMessage (because it seems to be a big “up yours” to the carriers) All in all – it’s just a major polish of the OS, without breaking their UI. Nothing really disappointing, but nothing groundbreaking, except for the iCloud integration.
The Wifi/Bluetooth on/off switches is something you’ll never see on any Apple device. It’s against the “it just works” philosophy. It’s technical, and ‘users’ don’t have to know about this stuff. Not wanting these toggle switches forces Apple into looking for more power efficient technologies and better batteries and forces them to innovate. Currently I can easily get through the day with my iPhone 4, WiFi and BT on all the time, and my BT connected to my carkit for 1 to 2 hours a day, heavy phone useage, playing music in my car all the time (not charging since my iPod connector kit is too old – on the contrary, it leaves my phone’s display on all the time). I usually have about 30 to 40% battery left when plugging it in at night. My colleague with his Samsung Galaxy S II can only dream of something like this. Without his toggle switches, he doesn’t make it through the day. It is true that with them, and manually managing them carefully he squeezes out 2 days, but that’s not worth the hassle for me.
Busy June: after Apple, Microsoft & HP, you can also add Nokia Connection in Singapore by the end of the month, which should be rich in revelations about incoming WP7 & MeeGo devices.
As I predicted, and was shot down by Eddyspeeder – no mention of 10.7.
http://www.osnews.com/permalink?445996
It is called 10.7:
http://imageshack.us/f/402/macosxliondevpreview103.png/
And Windows 7 is also NT 6.x. Your point? The product marketing is *not* mentioning 10.7 *anywhere* – that is my point.
OS X 10.7 is LION:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html
Just as OS X 10.6 is SNOW LEOPARD Apple advertises Code Names of their OS on their site and numbers on their Release Notes.
Im iClean, and absolutely loving it!
that said, I think Id prefer to use OS X than Windows..
well you know.. if I really really had no other choice.
Removing iTunes dependency was a good move. Is apple softening up? :p
I’m a bit worried and morbidly curious what sort of masochistic rituals an Apple faithful has to subject themselves to in the shower to become “iClean”.
1/Congratulations to Apple for recognizing that they are not alone in the mobile space and learning to steal good ideas. Innovation is a cooperative process.
2/Congratulations for helping at the task of removing the abomination that desktop iTunes is from the face of the Earth, even though insensitive jerks like myself won’t be fully satisfied until things like the App Store monopoly get out too.
3/Congratulations for trying again to provide updates for two years old devices, since apparently that’s an achievement in the mobile space. Hope for 3GS owner that Apple has learned from its past mistakes.
One has to give credit where it’s due.
Otherwise… Well, if a 4GB Lion image is optimized for download, I hope for Mac users that they will all have gained a fast optical internet connection by the time next version of OSX comes out (if it ever comes out). This is going to be quite painful, especially for the poor souls who rely on slow and monthly capped mobile networks… Guess this is a way for Apple to have people more regularly buy new Mac hardware when they don’t need to.
Edited 2011-06-06 22:11 UTC
Seems big, but any run of the mill cable connection will download that in a day. No idea what you’re talking about with mobile networks, this is OSX, you’re not going to be downloading it over 3g!
Where I’m at the fasted DSL/Cable connection is 1Mbps ($100 per month). My 3G connection is 3.6Mbps with real life speeds of about 2Mbps. So yes it sucks to say I’ll probably be using my 3G connection to download Lion at a cost of $15 per GB or suffer days downloading it.
How about refusing to update until Apple budges on this? I mean, there aren’t really any features that are absolutely necessary to have, particularly from day 1.
If enough people refuse to update, then the OSX platform will start to suffer enough fragmentation for Apple to want to do something to improve the uptake.
People are going to have to realize that the situation is going to get worst rather than better. File sizes are getting bigger, not smaller. Hell, Xcode itself is a hefty download. Refusing to update is not going to hurt Apple one bit. They’d rather you buy a new Mac with it preinstalled anyway. Fragmentation is only going to hurt you in the end. At 29.99 I doubt most people wouldn’t download it, and as more developers start to use the included apis older versions of OSX get will see less support.
Windows 7 for example is a pretty big file download from eopen. Its about 3.75 GBs it think. OSX is a bit bigger coming in at 4GB. Most likely due to drivers, WIn7 uses Windows update to search for drivers. Either way, I don’t 4GB is all that bad. It would be nice if Apple let put it on a USB stick but then they wouldn’t be able to control people copying it all over the place.
I don’t think they cared about the copying for two reasons: first, the price is low (especially compared to Windowses) which means (to me) that they don’t count on the selling price to inflate their revenue, second, I pre-ordered Snow Leopard at 29^a‘not in august 2009 and I could use the disc on any number of Macs I would have happened to own: there was no copy control scheme whatsoever.
1. 4 gigs at 1Mbps is only about 9 hours, not days.
2. You’d rather spend 4.5 hours and $60 to download over the cell network than have it just download overnight for free? That makes no sense whatsoever.
You are talking to someone who owns an Apple – its a whole different value system where paying extra for “privlege” is an accepted norm. Its the same mentality that goes into clicking the “overnight shipping” or “2nd day delivery” options for $40 – $80 more for online purchases.
Not saying its wrong, its just different. Its a mindset that I don’t understand either, but believe me those with that mindset don’t really understand people you and I either.
If nobody else uses the connection, or if the download takes top priority, which would in effect render the connection unusable for the day. Otherwise, it would be more like a day and a night. Not a big deal for regular P2P networks users, but other people might find it strange that they have to keep their computer turned on for so long. Except, of course, if the Mac App Store supports download suspend and resume.
Also, I hope that the Mac App Store deactivates power saving functions when it’s downloading something. IIRC, Safari (at least the version on my girlfriend’s macbook) doesn’t.
Then again, there’s the monthly cap issue…
Well, why not ? If download is the sole option, Apple has to support all internet users. And I’ve already seen many people who only have mobile internet at home around the web, and claim not to have the choice. I can also see why : landline networks are more expensive to deploy in some areas, so if the population is small operators won’t bother.
Why wouldn’t I download the IOS update over 3g?
There are parts of the world where 3g networks aren’t hobbled like the US.
I get 15Gb/month for ^Alb15.00 here in the UK so 4Gb is easily within my allowance. I’ve already downloaded the Fedora 15 X64 DVD Iso this month.
What is the rate for expanding that data cap?
While by simple math 4gb easily fits into 15gb, however you still have to look at the whole months allowance.
You download 4gb of Apple operating system data.
11gb for the rest of the month.
What does the break down for this look like in terms of what you can do?
1 Netflix streaming movie ~ 3gb
1 Linux dvd iso ~ 4bg
1 Standard P2P Movie ~ 2-3gb
So in the same month that iOS is downloaded, that allows for 3 movies the whole month, or 2 movies and a linux iso to try out, etc.
Its easy to say its doable but any way its presented, the iOS download is eating nearly 30% of your entire monthly allotment.
Does anyone else find the news of the new Android-esque (mentioned by Thom to be Touchwiz-esque) more than a bit amusing in light of Apple’s recent lawsuit against Samsung? Seems like the pot should think before calling the kettle black.
Yep and it will be even more amusing if this patent is granted: http://www.google.com/patents?id=r9DqAAAAEBAJ
It is still “pending” but filed Jan ’09.
Will Google counter sue?
The only thing Apple has innovated in iOS5 is the marketing of other peoples ideas as your own.
http://like-a-boss.org/2011/06/06/ios5-innovating-like-a-boss/
Edited 2011-06-07 03:42 UTC
Lord, this was funny:
Edited 2011-06-07 11:22 UTC
The people doing the interesting development on the iOS platform at the moment are not apple.
You write like an incompetent fool who knows nothing of the underlying R&D at both the Hardware and OS levels.
Except that me and the rest of the Internet would beg to differ.
And you some how represent ‘the internet’? last time I checked there wasn’t some sort of general election with the outcome being that you’re Pooh-Bah and holding such offices, including “First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Chief Justice, Commander-in-Chief, Lord High Admiral… Archbishop of Titipu, and Lord Mayor” and Lord High Everything Else.
Really? The point I was making (which I thought was obvious) is that every article on iOS5 I have read on the internet makes mention of the fact that the features being promoted are derivative of existing apps/OS’s.
But feel free to go off on an irrelevant rant. Suits you.
Both the content of the keynote and the comments here. It’s pretty clear that Apple have implemented features because they now have infrastructure in place to support them properly, which is always a good time to do it. Nothing revolutionary but certainly some welcome bits. Interesting that some are claiming Apple have copied features that others have only just shown in sneak previews yet both iOS 5 and Lion are clearly fairly stable development releases.
Clearly 5 “Apple hater” posts to one “Apple Fanboy” – the one “fanboy” got voted down while the haters got voted up. Which is about the ratio I expected.
This is OSAlert……what did you expect?
So everybody calm down.
[citation needed]
You’re serious? Apple has several types of retail arrangements with resellers. Many of them are “Premier Apple Resellers” These are shops that have the look and feel of Apple stores and are fitted out to apple standards without being Apple stores. Countries that don’t have Apple stores generally have these. Anything you can get from an Apple Store you can get from them.
It’s kind of a no-brainer that these stores and others will distribute the new OS. No I don’t have a citation but i’m pretty sure it doesn’t make any business sense to burn entire geographies.
Steve Jobs specifically said: Mac App Store only. That’s pretty definitive to me.
It does. Tell you what, A friend of mine owns an Apple premier reseller. I’ll ask him what he heard from Apple and get back to you.
For me personally, the most important update in Lion seems to be the polishing of Mail.app. The new side-by-side view looks brilliant, especially in fullscreen mode. This is perfect for me because I usually run Mail on the 13″ screen on my Macbook, while doing actual work on an external monitor. And they even stole conversations from Gmail, which is something I have been waiting for somebody to do for seven years now!
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/mail.html
This business of downloading Lion…Steve says “only”, but Steve has said many things over the years. There must be something more to this. As it stands now, it doesn’t make any sense.
You didn’t have to sound amaturish all of a sudden by calling iTunes the most horrible player (which is not) and calling RIAA a mafia organization (they are just doing their jobs for musicians etc)…
Maybe you had a crappy day or something and this site looks more or less personal but to keep up, you should at least drop those kind of expressions.
>_>
I didn’t upgrade to 10.6 because I didn’t really see the point of risking to break something that’s been working without problems for me. 10.7 is to be downloaded from the App Store, which isn’t available for 10.5. Great.