

And those users are legion at this point. This allows for a friendly and welcoming experience on the Mac for users whose first experience with anything Apple was an iPhone or an iPad. What it is doing is attempting to unify the two halves of this whole, bringing some of the most-used features of iOS devices to OS X.


There’s simply nothing to be gained there and most of the underlying structure of iOS came from OS X in the first place. Contrary to popular opinion, Apple isn’t in the process of transforming OS X into the mobile-friendly iOS. Many of Lion’s new features were designed to unify Apple’s OS offerings between its desktop and laptop computers, and its massively popular iPhone, iPad and iPod touch mobile offerings.
