MAc OS X lion will support new multi-touch gestures and animations to provide a “natural and intuitive” way to interact with a Mac, including pinching and swiping.

Rather than touchscreens, Apple will be focusing on trackpad input devices with gesture support, like the trackpads in its notebook computers and its Magic Trackpad for desktop systems. Mac OS X Lion will also feature a full screen mode that will enable apps to completely take over a display, hiding all desktop clutter, and enable users to switch apps with a single swipe. Mac OS X Lion will also include an app launcher called LaunchPad, a fullscreen app launcher enabling users to quickly find and run applications without hunting around-and which looks stunningly like iOS home screens. Headline Mac OS X Lion’s feature list will be Mission Control, a new feature that combines elements of Mac OS X’s existing Dashboard, Spaces, and Exposé with full screen application capabilities: Mission Control gives users an overhead view of ever application and window running on the Mac and enables users to move between them with a simple swipe or click. That doesn’t mean that Macs will suddenly all work via touchscreen gestures-Apple actually argues vertical touchscreens are a poor interface for computers-but will instead aim to make Mac OS X more immersive, with comprehensive support for full-screen applications. Announced back in October (when Apple also unveiled the current MacBook Air ultraportable notebooks), Mac OS X 10.7 aims to bring technology and interface elements from iOS and the iPad back to Mac OS X. Fitbit Versa 3Īpple has released a developer preview of Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” to developer program members, giving programmers and folks who make stuff for the broader Macintosh ecosystem a chance to see where Mac OS X is headed before it actually lands in customers’ hands.

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