Clearly, the company wants to keep you a happy prisoner inside its beautiful walled garden. It’s all useful and a bit magical - if you own more than one Apple device. Change a phone number on your phone, and it’s instantly updated on your tablet and computer set up a reminder on your Mac, and your phone will chirp at the appointed time or even place. The new apps join Mail, Calendar (formerly called iCal) and Contacts (formerly Address Book), which already sync with your iGadgets. For example, three iPhone/iPad apps are now on the Mac, too: Notes (a yellow pad, now with formatting and graphics), Reminders (a to-do list) and Game Center (lets you play against people on their Macs, iPhones and iPads, although few compatible games exist yet).Īll of these sync with other Apple machines wirelessly, courtesy of Apple’s free, increasingly sophisticated iCloud service. Mountain Lion continues to put velvet handcuffs on people who own iPhones, iPads and other Macs. Fifteen are improvements for Chinese customers, which is great for Apple’s world-domination plans but irrelevant to non-Chinese speakers. Now, Apple claims “over 200 new features.” But some of them are tiny tweaks (Safari checks for software updates every day! Ooh!) or techie-only treats (“Xsan, the high-performance cluster file system”). There’s only one precise way to answer that, of course: assign a dollar value to each new feature. If you’re a Mac owner, then, here’s the question: Is Mountain Lion worth $20? (A note: I have written a how-to manual to Mountain Lion for an independent publisher it was neither commissioned by nor written in cooperation with Apple.) For OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion, which came out Wednesday, Apple wants $20 - and you can install one copy on as many Macs as you have, without having to type in serial numbers or deal with copy protection hurdles. Installation is a 15-minute, one-click operation, and the price is piddling. It intends to offer a modest new version every year. Big changes, big price, big installation.Īpple takes a different approach with its OS X software for the Mac. A new version of Windows is a big, big deal.
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