“Not all the updates in Lion are huge, world-altering features, but for those switching from Windows to Mac, this one might make life a little easier,” Jordan Golson reports for MacRumors.
“Apple appears to be dropping ‘Airport’ from its preferred vocabulary, instead adopting the more widespread ‘Wi-Fi,'” Golson reports. “Wi-Fi has been the preferred term for wireless internet connectivity for most of the tech world , and, notably, iOS applications, for a long time, but AirPort has been Apple’s name for the various 802.11 standards since 1999 when Steve Jobs introduced the first iBook with Wi-Fi capabilities.”
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