Apple announces OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

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famousringo said:

smbu2000 said:

ithis said:
Isn't a mountain lion kinda like a snow leopard?

I thought a mountain lion was like a Puma (OS X 10.1).

Anyway, I'm surprised they're releasing an upgrade so quickly. Snow Leopard (10.6) was out for what 2 years? before Lion (10.7) released. Lion just released this past July and by Summer, Mountain Lion will be released!

Yeah, Apple is moving OS X to an annual release cycle, just like iOS.

Honestly, this upgrade feels like the most incremental update to OS X ever. Feels more like a suite of applications than an OS upgrade. Though for $30, it's hard to complain. I'm looking forward to iMessage support and Airplay, myself.

The most interesting part to me is that the China-centric upgrades warrant their own bullet point. China is Apple's fastest-growing market, and Apple is clearly determined to make the most of that.

Yeah, iMessage support would be nice although I don't think I'd use it all that much on my mac. It took me awhile to convince my gf to upgrade her iPad 2 to ios 5, but after she did she always uses iMessage on it to message me on my iPhone 4.

Airplay might be nice, but I don't have an Apple TV to take advantage of it. There are rumors that they might releasing an updated version of it though along with the iPad 3 next month. If so I might have to look into it.