Why Apple OS mixes two.....

Of all the announcements last day Apple can certainly interesting to consider a new version of Mac OS X, code-named Lion. Waited long for this release - version two years ago (Leopard) adds only cosmetic changes, and the past (Snow Leopard) was mainly devoted to low-level optimization, and other pieces. "Lion" does not like that. It can be seen with the naked eye major changes in the interface of the system, perhaps the most serious since the first release of Mac OS X. But whether they are good?

At first glance at the monstrous hybrid interface iOS (of iPhone, iPod touch and iPad) with Mac OS X wants to spit. On top of the desktop can now call the Launchpad - analog home screen. Works are all exactly the same as there - the application can be moved, to lay out on several screens. But why do we need a system where there are so conventional desktop folders, and dock with it stacks?

It seems that programmers Apple, deciding that since they are always busy now iOS, and on Mac OS X forces have no choice, and throw on the desktop system ready code from mobile? Suddenly feel better? So suddenly?

The second change is not very clear is devoted to full-screen applications. It seems they are now open somewhere at the side of the desktop, and between them must somehow painful to move, making the surface of the touchpad complicated gesture with three fingers (even Apple's vice president Craig Frederick, demonstrated a system, it turned out all the time only once with the second or third). Why is this done? Will you have a traditional full-screen applications menu at the top? Is it possible to exit full screen mode, without using obscene gestures? About all this we still do not know.

But I know for sure - the last two points in the list of innovations in the Lion - the things about which to dream throughout the existence of personal computers. This application, which always retain their status and restore it after the restart.

Please note - the screenshots of the new system in the dock are not marked are running. Random imperfection? I do not think so. It seems that now just is not any difference between running and not running the program. The transition from one to another, and the system decides what to do with the processes and the memory of the application, which remained in the background. Exactly how it is implemented, we are likely to learn at some event in which Apple did not convene a press, and software developers.

In the meantime, try the new features, "Lion" is very difficult. We still have not worked on computers on which applications will always retain their status and continue working from the same place (remember the Palm, but it is still on the desktop). This may be the thing that forever changed by the computer, if it is done right. Possible, and the rest of the changes dictated by her though.

But what's the point talking about what we potentially can not know? It is better to try to imagine what considerations may be guided at all to Apple, making the Lion.

- Jobs certainly did not give rest to three hundred thousand applications for iOS. He knows how difficult it is to get developers to write applications - on Mac OS X software has been relatively abundant only in recent years, but it's not even close to comparable to the success of mobile OSes Apple. Do not try to reproduce the same conditions on the desktop? And Apple is clearly trying to - create app store ("wait for 90 days") and partly reproduces the interface iOS: full-screen applications and home screen with icons

- Convergence of desktop and mobile operating system seems inevitable. And to develop easier and easier for users to - the interface looks like, so familiar.

- Merge Spaces, two types of Exposé (one - with all the windows, the second - with application windows) and Dashboard - not a bad idea. Not all users can understand the intricacies of the differences. Now, all gathered in one Mission Control - it should be seen more easily.

- All innovations are friendly to small screens - this is true for the MacBook at all, and in particular for the new Air with odinnadtsatidyuymovym screen.

- Lion - not the last update of the operating system. It is possible that on Mac OS X will still be more like the iOS. While that refuse conventional windows (and multi) applications can not, because there is simply no other. The same with the files, documents and other old paradigms. Nevertheless, the Lion will get rid of one of them - the difference between running and not running the application. Hopefully, in the future and get rid of the rest.