OSX Yosemite – Key features of Apple’s upcoming OSX release – Grasp gives you an early run-down of Yosemite OSX and key features you can expect to see on your mac this coming autumn.
OSX Yosemite – Key features of Apple’s upcoming OSX release
OSX Yosemite is currently out to pasture with many scores of beta testers who are putting the new OSX through its paces ahead of its officiall release to the general public in the autumn. It has been a long wait for a new OSX release for Apple users. It has been an especially long wait for the many, many Apple users who were warned of various flaws of the most recent OSX Mavericks instalment and opted to stick to their trusty Mountain Lion OSX that preceded it for numerous reasons.
OSX Yosemite is proving an early success in many ways. The focus for alot of early reviews have been its subtle aesthetic alterations on the desktop in accordance with the super crystal clear “Retina display” technology Apple has introduced to its recent hardware released. Fonts have been tweaked, menu’s have been spruced up and generally the OSX has been given the IO7 treatment where subtle tweaks are the order of the day.
“A completely new relationship between your Mac and IOS devices ” – Apple
“Whats new then”?
For those like me, who are more concerned with what Apple has been doing to innovate as its its credo there are other potential benefits to Yosemite. A new technology called “Handoff” is a potentially useful bit of software that allows one device to share “user-state” data with any nearby mobile device operating IOS8. This means essentially you could start writing a document on say your MacBook and then immediately hand it off to another device like your iPad and pick up where you left off instantly.
We have more features on the way in addition. We have “one click” Mac to iPhone tethering via the “Instant Hotspot” function, we have iCloud “Drive” which will be available on PC and IOS to allow for the first time seamless cross platform file syncing, a new desktop calculator widget (why has it taken this long), a revamped calendar, a revamped spotlight function and much, much more.
In short Apple isn’t reinventing the wheel as much these days but it is favouring common sense improvements to its software in accordance with public feedback. Something its main rival Microsoft has a poor reputation for and something that is always a strong point of the Apple faithful. Yosemite looks like a promising prospect and has dispelled rumours of a unified IOS and OSX platform, rather good cooperation between the two, with the two still allowed to play to their own individual strengths at the same time.
For a demonstration of the Yosemite to device handoff see this video:
