![]() With the previous release of OS X, Snow Leopard ( reviewed here) being seen as more of an overall improvement and refinement (with plenty of new developer APIs) rather than adding lots of new visible features, OS X was due to give some more love to the average user. Which makes sense, since millions more people have used iOS devices than Mac OS X ones but the Mac OS X market is gaining new users every quarter ( Mac sales have been growing faster than the PC market for five years). The good parts of iOS had been fed back into OS X. The announcement of Mac OS X "Lion" (version 10.7) served as reassurance that Apple hadn't forgotten about its existing customers.īut there was another meaning to "Back to the Mac": it indicated that many of the new features in Lion had been inspired by iOS, or born of lessons learned during the development of iOS. There had been a perception that Apple's focus had been solely on iOS, the operating system for the iPhone and iPad, for quite some time – accurate enough, and understandable given the meteoric rise in the number of people using an iOS device in recent years. When Apple held its "Back to the Mac" event in October 2010, many OS X users breathed a sigh of relief.
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