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CNET News: Apple previews Mountain Lion OS with iCloud

2012-06-11
we're here to announce mountain lion with mountain lion our mission remains the same to deliver the world's most advanced operating system for notebook and desktop computers with an interface optimized for multi-touch trackpad and mice and at the same time line makes it more natural than ever to work with the other new devices in our lives now mountain lion is a major release with over 200 new features this morning I'd like to detail just 8 for you and we're going to start with iCloud so when you sign in to your new mac with your Apple ID we automatically configure all of these applications to work with iCloud and so whether you're working in your mail with your contacts your calendar all of your content is up-to-date across all of your devices and with mountain line we introduced three great new apps optimized for iCloud messages which brings I message for the first time to the Mac reminders and nodes but we're also bringing integration for your document based apps in mountain lion for the feature we call documents in the cloud now documents in the cloud does two important things first it makes it provides a simple new way to access your and organize your documents when you launch an app like pages it comes up with a document library of all the pages documents you have in the cloud organized chronologically so the newest ones are easy to find right at the top and second documents in the cloud makes these document libraries available and up-to-date across all your Mac's and all of your iOS devices now we've adopted documents in the cloud on all of our key document based applications like Pages Numbers and Keynote and system apps like preview and text edit and we have a developer SDK so that developers can add the support in there apps as well but of course Game Center is ultimately all about gaming and we support both turn-based and head-to-head gaming both mac to mac and cross-platform iOS to mac / game center I'd like to give you a little demo of airplay and Game Center now and here I see my game center account and I can also see all of my game center friends I've got one here mr. X who's been meaning to play me in this new game that's coming out called CSR racing mr. X here is actually working on an iPad and on his iPad he can invite me to play this game CSR racing which is an upcoming title from natural motion and when he does you notice i get of course a notification in Notification Center I click on it and I'm instantly launched into the game now natural motion was originally developing this just as an iOS title but they found it so easy to bring it to the mac and integrate game center they'll be simultaneously releasing it for iOS and Mac this summer all right looks like we're up to race i'm in the red racer OS 10 on the right in white here we go again this is over airplay everything you're seeing all right I think I gotcha oh well this is just a quick overview of mountain lion and in addition to these major features there's so much more there things like vips in mail where you can mark any people that are important to you and new incoming messages will show up as notifications for you search in launchpad gatekeeper to help keep your system free from malware and offline reading list we're in Safari if you add things to your reading list you can still read them later even when you're disconnected from the internet so mountain lion we're going to be delivering it to customers next month via the mac app store and you know while lion was priced I think very aggressively at 2999 we want even more people to get their hands on mountain lion it's going to be just 19 and this price is for upgrades both from lion and all the way from Snow Leopard and you're single purchase will upgrade all of your personal max
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