Commentator Andy Ihnatko took the stage at this week’s MacTech conference here in Los Angeles today to give the conference keynote. In his talk, Ihnatko spoke about the upcoming new version of OS X, Lion, and specifically three different features of it.
First, he talked about the Mac App Store, and what he thought would be the outcome of Apple bringing an App Store system to its desktop platform. Then, he spoke about what he called “unitasking,” and how focusing on just one task at a time both changes the way computers work and the way we do, and finally he mentioned Apple’s changing hardware, and how the new MacBook Air embodies Apple’s ongoing curve in hardware creation and production.
First up was Ihnatko’s opinion on the Mac App Store so far, and he said that though he’d been “trying to get upset about it,” he actually liked the idea. “The good news,” he said, is that “Apple really doesn’t care about” developers. Instead, it cares about users, and from users’ point of view, the Mac App Store is actually a great idea. Though developers may have issues with it, Ihnatko said that anything that allows more than the around 200,000 (he estimated) Mac users out of 40 million to actually purchase and use apps will end up being a good thing.
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