It makes plenty of sense for Apple to want to unify the Mac OS as much as possible. Someone moving from an iPhone or iPad to MacBook or iMac ought to be able to adapt without serious retraining. Or at least that’s the theory. So in the first glimmers of a working Mac OS 10.7, […]

As soon as Apple puts a new product into the wild, you just know that lots of devoted Mac users, and tech journalists too, will tear the thing apart to see what makes it tick. But also to see what features it may lack, or which aren’t well implemented. It surely didn’t take long to […]

So far Apple’s concept of “Back to the Mac” appears to be the process of taking key user navigation features from the iOS and delivering them in Mac OS 10.7. The main issue, however, is whether that move will actually enhance the overall Mac user experience or whether this is all, in part, a ploy […]

Predictably, Apple has taken the iOS experience to heart in crafting Mac OS X Lion. In the first preview of 10.7, Apple focused on four major features, or “tent poles,” if you want to use the label applied to the initial demonstrations of iOS 4 earlier this year. In keeping with that tradition, the first […]