Os X

Why Apple chose Twitter over Facebook

By Andrew Wray, Sunday, Feb 26, 2012 a 6:44 pm

With the upcoming release of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple will be fully integrating Twitter social sharing across all of their included apps, as well as extending a developer API for 3rd party apps available through the Mac App Store. This follows similar integration in iOS 5 last year and leaves one huge, lingering question: where's the Facebook integration?

iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad have outsold entire history of Mac products in only four years

By Simon Sage, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 a 12:52 pm

122 million Macs have been sold to date, while the iOS platform has reached a staggering 316 million units since launch. iOS outpaced OS X after the first four years, but if that's not enough, iOS could have done it in the last year alone with 156 million supporting products sold in 2011.

Will you be switching to OS X Mountain Lion for Mac? [Poll]

By Georgia, Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 a 11:52 am

Apple shocked the tech geek community with this morning's surprise announcement of OS X Mountain Lion where they once again brought iPad and iPhone features "back to the Mac", including Messages, Reminders, Notification Center and more.

There's no word on Siri, Apple's voice controlled assistant, for Mac yet, but then again there's no word on Siri for iPad 3 yet either.

Apple is taking their time and doing what they do best -- seeding interest and creating buzz. They're excellent at it, just look at all the coverage they're getting this morning without even holding one of their famous keynotes!

And we want to know how its working.

If you're a Mac user, is this a no-brainer, instant-update for you when it's available, or would you rather Apple kept OS X and iOS separate and distinct?

If you're a Windows user, does anything you've seen today tempt you to make the switch to Mac, or does the idea of iOS-style stuff on your desktop make you even less likely to make the change?

If you're undecided, if you're waiting to see more, what precisely would Apple have to do to win you over to Mountain Lion?

You know the drill, vote in the poll above and give us your thoughts in the comments below!

Secret Apple project worked to port Mac OS X to iPad-style ARM processors

By Jack Perry, Monday, Feb 6, 2012 a 10:52 pm

In 2010, Apple’s Platform Technologies Group (a subdivision of the CoreOS department) spent some working on a previously-embargoed project to port the Mac OS X Darwin kernel to the ARMv5 chipset architecture -- the same family of chipsets that currently powers iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.

Here's a snippet from the project Porting Darwin to the MV88F6281, subtitled ARMing the Snow Leopard:

Mac OS X Lion 7.2 with iCloud support now available

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 a 1:32 pm

To coincide with iOS 5, Apple today has released Mac OS X Lion 7.2 which plugs Apple's desktop OS into the same iCloud that just started powering mobile.

Here's Lion:

Daily Tip: How to find a UDID or serial number of an iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Aug 15, 2011 a 10:48 pm

Trying to figure out where to find the UDID or serial number of There are many reasons you may need to look up your UDID, IMEI, or serial number of your iOS device. While earlier generations had the serial printed on the back casing of the device, many newer models don't. There are still several ways you can obtain this information both natively on your device or via iTunes.

Follow along to find out how.

Iterate 3: Prototypes

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011 a 9:57 pm

Marc and Rene iterate through Firefox's UX presentation, Adobe's Expressive Web Beta, Facebook's recent design acquisitions, Retina Displays for Macs, the HIG, and talk with David Forgash of SourceBits. This is Iterate!

Apple's layered user experience approach

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 a 9:51 pm

Apple implements an interesting layered user experience in both iOS and OS X. They've always done this to some degree; early on with Mac OS X, UNIX gurus could live comfortably in Terminal while those raised on the GUI of classic Mac and Windows would feel right at home in Aqua.

Mac OS X Lion is here!

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 a 8:31 am

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is here. OS X, the desktop counterpart to Apple's mobile iOS, has taken iPad innovation "Back to the Mac" with this release, including the iPad home screen-like LaunchPad for app management, automatic save and resume, etc.

Apple seeds OS X 10.7 Lion GM. Desktop down, mobile to go!

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jul 1, 2011 a 2:32 pm

Apple has just seeded the Gold Master (GM) candidate for OS X 10.7 Lion to developers. That's the desktop jab, scheduled to land this month, that Apple is using to set up the overhand right of iOS 5, which will finish the combo this fall.