Never one to shy away from dramatic hyperbole, Steve Jobs declared ours a “post-PC world” about this time last year, acknowledging a move away from personal computers as smartphones and tablets become even more ubiquitous. And while Jobs might happily look on as iPhones and iPads become our primarily tie to the outside world, the question remains: what happens to the PC during this grand transition? To a large extent, the answer lies in the OS, which brings us to OS X Lion. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to post-PC computing.In typically grandiose fashion, the company has declared OS X 10.7 “the worlds most advanced desktop operating system,” touting the addition of over 250 new features. The list is pretty uneven on the game-changing scale, with updates running the gamut from Airdrop file-sharing over WiFi to a full-screen version of the bundled chess game. If theres one thing tying it all together, though, its something that Jobs touched on when he first unveiled the OS back in October: the unmistakable influence of iOS. Now its true, we already got a taste of that with gesture-based trackpads and the Mac App Store, but those were merely glimpses of things to come. Apple borrows so heavily from iOS that at times, cycling through features makes the whole thing feel like youre merely operating an iPad with a keyboard attached. [click below to read more]
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