Apple today announced OS X Yosemite, a powerful new version of OS X redesigned and refined with a fresh, modern look, powerful new apps and amazing new continuity features that make working across your Mac and iOS devices more fluid than ever. The new Today view in Notification Center gives you a quick look at everything you need to know, all in one place; iCloud Drive is located within the Finder and can store files of any type; and Safari has a new streamlined design that puts the most important controls at your fingertips. Mail makes editing and sending attachments easier than ever; Handoff lets you start an activity on one device and pass it to the other; and Instant Hotspot makes using your iPhone’s hotspot as easy as connecting to a Wi-Fi network. Yosemite even gives you the ability to make iPhone calls on your Mac.
“Yosemite is the future of OS X with its incredible new design and amazing new apps, all engineered to work beautifully with iOS,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, in a statement. “We engineer our platforms, services and devices together, so we are able to create a seamless experience for our users across all our products that is unparalleled in the industry. It’s something only Apple can deliver.”
With Yosemite, OS X has been redesigned and refined with a fresh modern look where controls are clearer, smarter and easier to understand, and streamlined toolbars put the focus on your content without compromising functionality. Translucent elements reveal additional content in your app window, provide a hint at what’s hidden behind and take on the look of your desktop. App icons have a clean, consistent design and an updated system font improves readability.
The new Today view in Notification Center gives you a quick look at everything you need to know with widgets for Calendar, Weather, Stocks, Reminders, World Clock and social networks. You can even download additional widgets from the Mac App Store to customize your Today view. Spotlight now appears front and center on your desktop and adds new categories of results, so you can view rich suggestions from Wikipedia, Maps, Bing, App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, top websites, news and movie showtimes.
Built right into the Finder, iCloud Drive stores files of any type in iCloud. iCloud Drive works like any other folder on your Mac, so you can drag documents into it, organize them with folders and Tags and search for them using Spotlight. With iCloud Drive, you can access all your files in iCloud from your Mac, iPhone, iPad or even a Windows PC.
Safari has a new streamlined design that puts the most important controls at your fingertips. A new Favorites view gives you quick access to your favorite websites, and a powerful new Tabs view displays thumbnails of all your open web pages in one window. Safari also gives you more control over your privacy, with separate Private Browsing windows and built-in support for DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn’t track users. When you search for popular or common terms, new Spotlight Suggestions appear along with the suggestions from your search provider. Safari supports the latest web standards, including WebGL and SPDY, and with support for HTML5 Premium Video Extensions, you can watch Netflix HD videos for up to two hours longer.* Powered by the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari is over six times faster than Firefox and over five times faster than Chrome when executing JavaScript found in typical websites.**
Mail makes editing and sending attachments easier than ever. With Markup you can quickly fill out and sign forms and even annotate images and PDFs from within Mail. Mail Drop allows you to easily send large videos, images or files up to 5GB from the Mail app to any email address. Messages has a new look and delivers even more options for communicating with friends and family. Now you can add titles to ongoing message threads so they are easy to find, add new contacts to ongoing conversations, or leave those conversations you no longer want to follow. With Soundbites you can create, send and listen to audio clips right in Messages.
Continuity features in Yosemite make your Mac and iOS device perfect companions. When your iPhone or iPad is near your Mac, Handoff lets you start an activity on one device and pass it to the other. Instant Hotspot makes using your iPhone’s hotspot as easy as connecting to a Wi-Fi network.*** Now the SMS and MMS messages that previously only appeared on your iPhone appear in Messages on all your devices. You can even send SMS or MMS messages directly from your Mac and make or receive iPhone calls using your Mac as a speakerphone.****
Yosemite delivers platform technologies that make it easier for developers to create amazing new Mac apps. SpriteKit makes it easier to incorporate realistic motion, physics and lighting in games, and integrates with SceneKit to bring 3D casual gaming within reach of any developer. Storyboards for Yosemite and Xcode® 6 take advantage of the new View Controller APIs in AppKit to make it easier to build apps that navigate between multiple views of data. New APIs allow developers to integrate Handoff into their own apps and create Today view widgets for distribution through the Mac App Store. Share Menu extensions add new destinations to the Share Menu, and new APIs let developers create custom Share Sheets.
The developer preview of Yosemite is available to Mac Developer Program members starting today. To help make OS X even better, Apple is introducing the OS X Beta Program, which gives customers early access to Yosemite and invites them to try out the release and submit their feedback. Mac users can participate in the OS X Beta Program for Yosemite this summer and download the final version for free from the Mac App Store this fall. Customers interested in signing up can visit www.apple.com/osx/preview for more details.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
* Testing conducted by Apple in May 2014 using 1.4GHz Intel Core i5 MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM, prerelease OS X v10.10, and prerelease OS X v10.9.3. Prerelease Safari 8.0 tested with HD 1080p Netflix content; prerelease Safari 7.0.4 and Silverlight plug-in v5.1.30317.0 tested with HD 720p Netflix content. Systems tested with WPA2 Wi-Fi network connection while running on battery power.
**2 Testing conducted by Apple in May 2014 using JSBench Suite 2013.1 JavaScript performance benchmark on 1.4GHz Intel Core i5 MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM and prerelease OS X v10.10. Tested with prerelease Safari 8.0, Chrome v34.0.1847.137, and Firefox v29.0.1.
*** Check with your carrier for hotspot availability.
**** Cellular data charges may apply.
Source: Apple Inc.
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No new Cinema Display 🙁
No new Macbook Pros 🙁
No new Airport Express 🙁
No new AppleTV 🙁
New OS10.10 seems to look a lot like 10.5
I do love the new iCloud Drive feature!!!
Yes because this is called the WWDC. Duh!
they’ve announced hardware in past wwdc. since they didn’t that means half the year has now gone by with no new hardware. Not good for cook
He never told you he’d release hardware before the blatantly predictable fall release schedule.
The fact that hardware may have been announced at WWDC in the past doesn’t change the fact that hardware is RARELY announced at this event. People who are whining about the absence of hardware announcements at this year’s keynote need a reality check.
New MacBook Pro’s just came out last October. I just bought one so don’t rush it!!! Wanna make me feel bad?
Apple has all summer to announce hardware. Only people manipulating the stock were pushing for hardware announcements at a software conference.
No free love or nickel beer either! Some people just love to bitch.
are those phone calls they made on the mac via VOIP or part of the persons cell phone plan?
Either/or, most likely VOIP, if it’s from the Mac.
So between Mac and iPhone you get the call thing but what about between iPad and iPhone?
Same with ipad.
U can answer calles revieved on your iphone from a mac or ipad !
Given that the said the ability to do this was based on interaction with your iphone, that would suggest it is using the LTE radio in your iphone then forward to your iMac using wireless
Since this is a feature of the new iOS and OS X, I am guessing it is using some new proprietary protocol to transparently redirect phone audio to a remote device, but the underlying phone call will still be done in the same way (whatever mobile network protocol it uses, depending on the carrier). Essentially, the laptop will function much like a bluetooth headset; the phone call is still handled by the iPhone as usual.
In other words, you would be using your voice minutes as with any other phone call.
Iterative …
Not sure you understand what just happened at WWDC
Ignorant.
Is Metal just for iOS or is it for OS X too? 10x faster than OpenGL sounds awesome.
Are they bringing back Rosetta? :-p
“I shaved my b@!!$ for THIS!!?”
I love the new Safari. For me, it was the best item announced.
Surprised no one mentioned that the new Spotlight gets that much closer to pushing Google out of search on the Mac. It searches Wikipedia, Yelp, movies and several other sources without consulting Google. Sure you’re still gonna use Google or some other search engine for complex stuff but it doesn’t seem like Apple has to do much to take over search entirely.
Shhhhhhhh !
Wow, why the design of Mac OS is getting uglier everytime since 10.2 ? Now the icons looks as cheaply design as iOS 7. Apple, you should know from now, everybody hates this “baby, Windows 1995”, look. It is time to hire new designer, what an ugly interface !
Wow. Had to be one. Ron, how about using “I think” and dropping the completely invalid use of “everybody”.
Just downloaded OS X 10.10. I agree with Ron. The dock icons are much less attractive than 10.9. The red, yellow and green circles at the upper left corner of the windows are truly ugly and are no more indicative that they are buttons than a drop of paint. I do like new menu bar font which has slightly wider character spacing. Apple needs to fix the favorites bar in Safari before final release – the text is almost unreadable.
Once again, Mail is broken, not fixed, a piece of amphibious crap. Tim Cook needs to be fired and bankrupt. But being the arrogant bastard he is, living off of Steve Jobs and he can’t even fix mail. And of course MacDailyNews won’t print this because they know its the truth. Why won’t they let this be shown, because they in the sack with the old jerk.
Mail works really well for me on multiple Macs running Mavericks with multiple mail accounts. I know it’s super important to you if you’re the only one with a mail issue but it sounds like that might be the case.
Nothing about which machines won’t make the Yosemite cut.