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