WWDC 2012 – OS X Mountain Lion

General OS X Updates

• Over 200 new features.

iCloud Intergration

• Mountain Lion has iCloud built into the system.
• Apples apps are conmfigured to use iCloud.
• All your content is up to date across all of your devices.
• Document based apps are getting “Documents in the Cloud”.
• Drag things into the document library on Numbers, Pages and Keynote.
• Changes updated real time across all devices.

New Apps

• Reminders
  • Looks similar to iOS apps.
  • Multitouch.
  • Location based reminders too.
  • Syncs with iCloud.
• Notes
  • Looks just like the iPad app.
  • Syncs with iCloud.
• Messages
  • Brings iMessage to the Mac.
  • Support for other chat services.

Notification Center

• Apps have notification banners and alerts like iOS devices.
• Notification center has a switch to turn of all notifications, if you’re connected to a projecter, they get disabled.

Dictaion coming to the Mac

• Siri dictation is coming to the Mac.
• Everywhere on your Mac, you can talk and it types.

Sharing

• Sharing is built in system wide.
  • For example, you can send any image to Flickr.
• The logins for these services are managed in Settings.
• Also works in full screen apps.
  • Share a photo to Flickr straight from full screen iPhoto.

Safari

• New unified smart search field, search straight from the adress bar. Just like Google Chrome.
• iCloud tabs syncs tabs across devices.
• New Tab View feature. Use gestures to navigate tabs.
• New scrolling animation, built in core animation.
• Multitouch gestures for zooming. Zooming out pulls you into the Tab View.
• Swipe across tabs using multitouch gestures.
• Pinching out selects that current tab.

New Feature: Power Nap

• Developing…

Game Center

• Developing…

Features for China

• Developing…

Out next month via the Mac App Store, for $19.99.