OS X Lion is no cuddly pussy cat but instead, a roaring upgrade and a key indicator to how Apple engineers visualize people using PC in a seemingly post-PC world Apple made several announcements at the 2011 WWDC yesterday: new versions of both its desktop and mobile operating systems were unveiled, as was the company's much-discussed iCloud service Steve Jobs’ taking of the stage was met with a standing ovation, but immediately after giving a brief introduction of the Mac OS X’s evolution, he ceded the mic to Phil Schiller, vice president of Apple, who was in charge of introducing the new features the much anticipated operating system has to offer.
Apple said Monday that Lion, the next version of Mac OS X, will be a major release with over 250 new features and go on sale in July for $29.99 Instead of shipping on a disk, though, the 4GB upgrade will come via the Mac App Store and work on all the Macs that one owns. Jobs then moved on to iOS 5, beginning with a look at where we are. Since the original iPhone's 2007 debut, over 200 million iOS devices have been sold, in all, 25 million of which are iPads. There are presently 425,000 apps in the App Store, 90,000 of which were designed specifically for the iPad. And, since its debut less than three years ago, 14 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store, generating a total developer payout of over $2.5 billion.
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