As Phil Schiller takes the stage to talk about Lion, one thing’s for sure: OS X is doing better as a platform than it ever has.
As an install base, there’s now over 54 million users around the world. In fact, it’s doing better than ever. The last quarter, the PC market actually shrank 1 percent while the Mac went up 28%
The Mac has outgrown the industry every quarter for the past half decade.
Most of those sales are notebooks. 73% of all Mac sales are MacBooks.
Why are MacBooks so popular? It’s because OS X is the heart of Mac, and it’s ten years old today, and has evolved to become refined, powerful and beautiful.
Today, OS X evolves again into a Lion, with over 250 new features. But we’re only going to talk about a few of them.
1) Multitouch gestures, thanks to the multitouch technology built into every Mac sold for the last few years.
2) Fullscreen applications: every app can easily go fullscreen now, with a simple swipe gesture letting you switch between.
3) Reading List: Apple takes Instapaper’s idea of a list to read later and seemingly copies it wholesale.
4) Mission Control allows you to get a birds eye view of everything going on on your Mac. Expose, but grouped per app.
And now Craig Federighi is leading everyone through a live demo.
