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Back to the Mac: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: App Store

October 20, 2010

Mac News

Today Apple announced that they would be taking some of the best features from iOS and moving it to OS X 10.7 Lion.  While the application won’t support touch screens, it will have a number of multi-touch gestures.  Steve Jobs said that they will be focusing on using the MacBook Trackpads and Magic Trackpads as the primary input devices for multi-touch functionality on the Mac lineup.

Multi-Touch Gestures
Steve stresses that touch-based vertical screens do not work well. They’ll be sticking with touch-based pads for Macs – no touch screens.

App Store
Hell yes! There will be a Mac-based App Store in 10.7. The 70/30 split remains the same as on the iPhone App Store. Best of all, the apps will be licensed for every Mac you own. This is great news for users.

Mission Control
Mission control combines Exposé, Spaces, Dashboard, and Fullscreen apps into one interface. About time that Dashboard received some love!

Just with a gesture on the trackpad, you now have access to every window, screen, and app on your Mac. I’m stoked.

Home Screen
Just like the iPad and iPhone, we’ll get something called “Launchpad.” It allows you to have home screens to organize your apps in a consistant way. Frankly, I think this will make a big difference.

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charles222

Um, you can already have your mac assign specific programs to specific windows. :p

The rest sounds neat.

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Grant Brünner

1) I think everyone is being a little bit too paranoid. Steve went out of his way to say that this is only one avenue of installing apps.

2) This has the potential to kill almost all malware threats. If you could lock down your Grandma's Mac to only install Mac App Store apps, there would be no worries about trojans. Provided that the Mac auto updates as well, it's near-bullet proof.

3) It's just not going to happen in any realistic time frame. 10 or 15 years — Who knows about that? In the near future, something like that will not happen.

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John

Am I the only one a little worried that at some future point , you we only be able to purchase Mac approved apps.. like the iPhone apps?

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Joshua Schnell

Certainly not, it crossed my mind as well. Guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

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