1/11/2024 0 Comments Macintosh os x lionMeaning, you only need to know where you are when you move from where you currently are. Whilst previous versions of OS X put huge emphasis on your position inside a document, or a webpage, Lion takes an interesting spin in that your position inside a document doesn’t really matter until you act on that position. When you’re done scrolling – because you’re reading, or doing something else entirely that doesn’t require your finger’s movement – the scrollbar disappears.īy focusing on the content, rather than the graphical interface around it, Apple wants to convey a simple yet important message: it’s not the window that matters, it’s what’s inside that window. Instead, they implemented the same scrolling method that made reading and interacting with the iPhone a real pleasure: the scrollbar is now a narrow, almost invisible and translucent bar that only appears when you actually scroll. And so they removed the classic Aqua-blue scrollbar. As our Macs are increasingly becoming touch-enabled with built-in or external trackpads and multi-touch mice, the engineers at Apple likely asked themselves “Why do we have to keep using this?”. As we reported last year, Apple’s intention was to eliminate the scrolling system of Snow Leopard (and all versions of OS X before that) to completely rewrite the engine with the same approach they took on iOS: natural scrolling, no visible scrollbars, rubber-banding, and no scrollbar alleys. Rather, they’re subtle improvements that will make you wonder why they weren’t implemented before. The changes in Lion – both design-wise and feature-wise – never feel like forced additions that are weird to use and be familiar with. With Lion, Apple hasn’t ported iOS’ design principles to the Mac – they took the best parts of a mobile interface that they thought would also make sense on the desktop, and managed to make it work. If anything, Apple has tweaked the Aqua interface to achieve the same elegance, minimalism and focus on content first conceptualized on the iPhone, but it’s far from being an iOS clone. Lion is an evolution of the OS X we know and use, and the changes made to the operating system are immediately visible in the interface. As Cody wrote in his review “Apple weaved our working knowledge of gestures and interfaces into the Mac to capitalize on our intuition” – Lion isn’t a glamorous iOS. ![]() ![]() There is a subtle difference though: whereas most people would think Apple is “stealing” from iOS, building on the success of the iPhone and iPad (now a bigger business than desktop computers) to sell more Macs, Lion does in fact prove that the roots of OS X are still strong, but looking for a cohesive integration with the seeds planted on mobile. As we discussed in our OS X Lion review, Apple’s latest operating system is an evolutionary step forward, a milestone in the company’s desktop software history that innovates old concepts and user interactions by bringing some of the features and design schemes seen on iOS devices to the Mac’s bigger screen.
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