“Announcing [Mac OS X 10.7] Lion at the Autumn 2010 keynote, Steve Jobs said the new OS would bring features developed for iOS back to the Mac,” Ian Osborne reports for TechRadar UK. “‘We started with Mac OS X, repurposed it for the iPhone and used it in the iPad as well,’ he explained. ‘Now we’re bringing some of its ideas back to the Mac.'”
“And this philosophy runs through the heart of Lion,” Osborne reports. “A new feature that’s obviously inspired by iOS is Launchpad, an application launcher that works just like the iOS homescreen.”
Osborne reports, “The way OS X saves your work has undergone a revision, with two new features added for Lion. Instead of pressing Command+S every couple of minutes, saving is automatic in OS X 10.7.
Much more in the full article here.