They may not sound sexy (just as Time Machine didn’t back when it made its début in Leopard), but we think Auto Save and Versions are pretty exciting. While these interface enhancements make the Mac that much nicer to use, there are some interesting conceptual changes as well. It sure looks to us like Lion is heralding touch-screen Macs in the not-so-far future, as the lines between a mobile device and a desktop computer continue to blur. LaunchPad temporarily hides everything and shows you all of your application icons in a neat grid, just like your favorite mobile operating system. Mission Control is sort of like a super-Exposé, where you can see miniature windows grouped by application, plus Dashboard widgets, Spaces, and other stuff. Sophisticated multi-finger trackpad gestures will zoom into pictures, breeze through open windows, and more. Windows without scroll bars? Full screen applications? These and other changes, many inspired by iOS (the operating system which drives iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch), are coming your way very shortly. Shipping in July, this new major release of the Mac operating system boasts a ton of new features and, more notably, some of the most dramatic interface changes since the first Mac shipped in 1984. ![]() Spoiler alert: no new iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, or Mac models were announced. ![]() What can Mac and iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch users look forward to in the near future? Well, if you want to soak it up just as the developer masses did on Monday, nuke up some popcorn and treat yourself to the actual keynote itself. ![]() Steve Jobs and the executive team at Apple held forth with a mighty slew of announcements yesterday at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference. We’ll explain more about future changes and iCloud in an upcoming newsletter. We know many of you have received notices about MobileMe being replaced by iCloud.
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