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OS X gets a new name, and new features galore (CNET News)

2016-06-13
you know OS 10 has been with us the name over 15 years and it served us so well but as we look at it alongside its younger brethren something sticks out we realize that there's a name that would be so much clearer and so much more elegant and so we're making it so the name of the world's most advanced desktop operating system is now Mac OS today when you first approach your Mac to use it the experience is something like this can you open it up you're confronted with a password field and then you type and then maybe miss type and then retype your password and then you're in and using your Mac but you know for many of us we already have a device securely authenticated to our wrists that already knows who we are and could tell our Mac and so then when we open our Mac it could be a little bit more like this and we're in it's that simple the next continuity feature in Mac OS Sierra is universal clipboard now Wow gasps so but I no cop copy and paste is so fundamental to the way that we use our max for so many years now but what if when you were on even your iPhone and you found some text and you just went to copy it that when you then went to your Mac well you could just paste it right in and now you can with images video everything it's completely automatic we're bringing Apple pay to the web so now when you're shopping online you'll have a pay with Apple pay button available to you when you click it a sheep comes down actually prompts you to securely authenticate your purchase using continuity right on your iPhone with touch ID this year I'd like to take the unusual step of letting this feature introduce itself hi it's me it sure is great to be on the Mac how about a demo that's right Sirius coming to the Mac
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