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Mac OS X Lion announced

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Apple announced today at their “Back to the Mac” event, that they are releasing a new Mac OS X, called “Lion”.

Apple wanted to bring some innovations found in the iPhone and iPad, and bring them back to the Mac. One of of the new features is multi-touch, so Apple is bringing multi-touch to Mac OS X Lion. Apple has tried long to bring multi-touch to the Mac through trackpads and mouse.

The App Store will also be making an appearance on Mac OS X Lion. With downloadable apps, like Angry birds, you’ll be able to play games, browse apps, read books and many more. The Mac App Store will be separate from the iPhone, iPod and iPad store, but will be used just like it.

The store will feature free and paid apps, with the same agreement for developers (70/30). The Mac App Store will feature an update feature, checking to see if any of your apps are out of date, with automatic updating.

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Lion will also include home screens, just like the iPhone and iPad. Having a few different desktops with icons across your home screen, so you can access your apps. The App Store will feature top paid, top free and many other categories like the mobile App Store has.


The Mac App Store also contains rating, comments and photos so you can see exactly what you’re about to buy. Launch Pad in Lion will bring a quick and easy way to launch your apps onto your desktop, without cluttering your view up. You can also create folders, just like on iOS 4.0.

Lion will bring full screen apps to the desktop, just like in iPhoto, so you can focus on what you’re reading or playing. With full screen mode, you want to find your apps and screens easier, well Lion is bringing a new feature called “Mission Control”, where you can view all your opened screens with a single click, making it easier to open or browse through screens.

Apple plans on releasing Lion this summer. The Mac App Store will work on Snow Leopard, and will open in 90 days from today. Developers can submit applications next month.

iPhone 4 unveiled

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Apple launched an updated version of its iPhone, describing it as the world’s thinnest smartphone, and “the most precise, beautiful thing we’ve ever designed”.

Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, told the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco that iPhone 4 was “the biggest leap forward” since the original iPhone.

The new iPhone 4 is made from glass and stainless steel and features a five-megapixel front-facing camera with an LED flash. The screen on the new iPhone is four times the resolution of the display on the current iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4 can also record and edit high definition video.

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Steve Jobs demonstrated the FaceTime video-calling feature of the iPhone 4 by calling Jony Ive, Apple’s chief designer.

The iPhone 4 will be available in the UK on June 24, in a choice of black or white. Apple has not yet revealed pricing and upgrade details.

“When you hold this in your hands, it’s unbelievable,” said Jobs. Details of the iPhone 4 leaked weeks ahead of today’s official announcement, after a prototype device was dropped in a bar, and found its way into the hands of Gizmodo, a gadget blog.


“Stop me if you’ve seen this before,” joked Jobs as he showed off the new device.

The iPhone 4 uses Apple’s own A4 processor, which Jobs said gave superior speed and performance, as well as a better battery that will allow users to go for longer between charges. There’s also a gyroscope built in to the device, which allows movement to be measured even more precisely, and could inspire a new generation of iPhone games, said Jobs.

Apple also gave more details about its new operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, known as iOS4.