After a busy weekend, I decided to take a look to the recent updates Apple released during the last week, including the new Operating System Update Mac OS 10.6.6. and the Mac App Store.
The 10.6.6 release it's nothing but a patch that will install the App Store on your mac. Normally Mac updates gives the same as on iOS updates, improving battery life, improving graphics performance, among other basic stuff.
According to Apple, the Mac OS update includes:
- Discover Mac apps: Browse featured apps, top charts, and categories, or search for something specific. Read detailed app descriptions and user reviews, and flip through screen shots.
- Buy and install: Easily purchase apps with your iTunes account. Apps install in one step and are quickly available from the Dock.
- App updates: The Mac App Store keeps track of all your purchased apps and notifies you when free updates are available.
The Mac App Store interface looks pretty much the same as the regular iTunes Store, except it runs separately.
The Mac App Store, same as iTunes, requires you to log in with your Apple ID. I noticed a little bug when attempting to log in to the Mac App Store, which keeps loading and never logs you in, unless you switch from the Purchases tab to any of the other tabs available while attempting to log in.
A cool feature I thumb up about the Mac App Store, is that you can actually purchase Apple software such as iLife components, among other third party (non-Apple) applications.
When the App Store through iTunes was released, I remember the first thing I did was checking on free apps. Nothing different I did with the new Mac App Store, one of the first free coolest apps, is the Twitter app for Mac.
This clearly means that applications running on iOS will soon be released for Mac. I also believe it will work amazing having the new Mac OS X Lion released. I remember once in a podcast where Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs discussed the upcoming technologies back in 2007.
Jobs and Gates were asked what did they believe the upcoming technology would most influence within the next few years (that was back in 2007). According to Jobs' prediction, technology would turn around based on upcoming gadgets.
He believed smartphones technology, and gadgets would rule above current (2007) computer technologies. In fact, we watched tablets, smartphones, and others developing technology that was not even being implemented on standard desktop computers, and laptops.
However, the investment on such gadgets and smartphones helped developing technology that is now being implemented on certain computers, retina display, odometer, etc.
If we look back at what Jobs said, standard users are now investing more on gadgets, and smartphones than on expensive and complex bad ass computers.
According to BlogsDNA, the Mac App Store has been cracked already. That means we will see hack members of known teams developing jailbreak software for Mac.
