“Most of the new features in Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion have to do with a suite of new apps that take advantage of iCloud,” Steve Kovach writes for The Business Insider. “And a lot of those apps mimic features from popular third-party ones that we’ve been using on our Mac for some time now.”

10 Mac Apps Apple Just Destroyed With Mountain Lion
• Adium (killed by Messages)
• Trillian (killed by Messages)
• Growl (killed by notifications)
• Twitter extensions for sharing links (killed by built-in Twitter integration)
• Chrome browser (killed by Safari)
• Evernote (killed by Notes)
• Wunderlist (killed by Reminders)
• Remember the Milk (killed by Reminders)
• Anti-virus software for Mac (already on life support, killed by Gatekeeper)
• Dropbox, Google Docs, and other cloud document services (killed by iCloud)

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