{"id":1383,"date":"2012-02-16T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2012-02-16T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:49:32","slug":"mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think a lot of sites are burying the lede here &#8211; the fact that Mac OS X is going to a new <em>annual<\/em> refresh cycle is a <em>massive<\/em> shift in the way things work. \u00a0The iPhone-ization of the Mac ecosphere continues apace, not least with the release of a beta of Messages to replace your iChat. (Significantly, the Messages beta did not come through the Mac App Store\u2026which is as effective a way of saying THIS IS NOT YET OFFICIAL as I can think of, bar shouting or flying a banner over the Rose Bowl.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know quite what I think of this. \u00a0It really does look like the 11&#8243; MacBook Air is going to become the keyboard-equipped non-touch iPad Pro, and more than ever, the iPad 3 (notional as it may be) looks like a viable option if I need a personal portable device with more oomph than an iPhone. \u00a0More to the point, the iCloud-centric nature of Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) means that an iPhone, an iPad and a Mac mini at home will make for a perfectly viable peer computing experience.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes sense. \u00a0After all, according to a report today, Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than they&#8217;ve sold Macs\u2026ever. Combined. \u00a0At this point, it&#8217;s pretty obvious which way the future lies for Cupertino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think a lot of sites are burying the lede here &#8211; the fact that Mac OS X is going to a new annual refresh cycle is a massive shift in the way things work. \u00a0The iPhone-ization of the Mac ecosphere continues apace, not least with the release of a beta of Messages to replace &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mountain Lion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}