So I had ignored the last Apple press event hype on pretty much every press site that day. I just now read the features of 10.7 Lion. Oh man. Let’s have a quick run down of the “new, innovative features”.
App Store: Holy shit you can buy applications online?! Ok this sounds so awful but I guess I can see the point. Buy once install many times on different macs using your iTunes account. Yay simplicity! Neat, but shit how on earth did we get applications before this? Too bad they can’t make the iDevices start syncing to your iTunes account when you turn it on, have to plug the fuckers in!
Launchpad: Yay lets look at all of the pretty icons at once! To be fair on this one applications are kinda weird on the Mac anyway. Blah blah like the iDevices, more like start menu type deal. So instead of rooting around in the applications folder, or making 10000 dock shortcuts you can bring this up and have at it.
Full-screen apps: Holy shit again! I can run applications in full screen mode!? Why has no one thought of this before? Oh… wait. Based on the Apple press images it looks like it gets rid of the “Apple unified menu bar” or whatever and lets the app have full-screen awesomeness. But… Is this really groundbreaking and revolutionary?
Mission Control: Crazy expose. I don’t know, this one I am not grasping as well. I only use the dashboard to look at the calendar for when I forget what day/day of the week it is. Never really use expose either. So maybe this is the best feature so far?
Some of these seem like they are trying to fix problems that don’t exist (yet). Maybe not multitasking will be sweet on the woefully underpowered Air? Maybe the Air needs to drop the keyboard, add a multi-touchscreen and make it into a tablet!
