“Announced on Monday, OS X Yosemite continues Apple’s mission to simplify the desktop experience,” Arron Hirst writes for RazorianFly. “It’s a statement in design, as much as it is a statement to the functionality everyone should expect from their desktop computers – going forward. It sets the bar. High.”
“Apple describes the OS as having ‘an elegant design that feels entirely fresh, yet inherently familiar,’ citing that it set out to elevate the experience of using a Mac… I’d have to agree. Visually, Yosemite is by far the biggest update to OS X since the software’s original introduction on March 24, 2001,” Hirst writes. “”
“Just as we highlighted the extreme importance of Spotlight when used in context of Apple’s iOS operating system, so to is Spotlight important to Apple’s desktop operating system. And in Yosemite, Spotlight is going on steroids,” Hirst writes. “till located in the top right of the OS’s menu bar, tapping the Spotlight icon in Yosemite will launch one single search bar located in the middle of the screen. It’s bold, clear and highly readable. Just start typing to find what you’re looking for. Apple says the feature supports the looking up of information from a number of different sources, including local sources, and online sources like; Wikipedia, Bing, news, Maps, movies, (and more).”
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