“For a few years there, it felt like major changes in OS X’s look and behavior were imminent,” Jason Snell reports for Macworld. “The conventional wisdom during the Lion and Mountain Lion eras was that Apple had placed OS X on a collision course with iOS, and inevitably the two would come together to form… well, if not a single operating system, then two variations on a single theme.”
“In the past year, though, it’s become clear that Apple no longer believes in that approach, if it ever truly did,” Snell reports. “iOS 7 took big, bold steps in one direction — and OS X Yosemite takes smaller steps in a different one. After spending several days running Yosemite (on a Retina MacBook Pro provided to me by Apple and pre-loaded with the first developer release), it’s clear that Apple has a very clear and distinct future in mind for the Mac — even though some of today’s Apple hardware might not be up to delivering it.”
Snell reports, “For a while now, I’ve thought that 2014 would be the year that Retina spreads across the Mac product line. After spending time with Yosemite on both Retina and non-Retina systems, I’m more confident than ever in that guess. Yosemite’s new design feels like it was built for Retina displays…”
Read more,and see screenshots, in the full article here.