“OS X Yosemite will make the Mac sexy all over again,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “It will be the most rapid OS migration yet seen on a PC, driving yet more Mac market share gains. We’ll see more Mac software releases than ever before, as developers and users climb aboard.”
“Based on Web usage data, Chitika claims developers are actively using the unreleased OS almost four times as much as they used the then unreleased OS X Mavericks following WWDC last year,” Evans writes. “There’s lots of reasons for this, of course: not only has Apple made OS X available to iOS developers for the first time, but it also seems more inclined to put the release into a wider community, and will make the release available to a million Mac users during summer.”
“What we are seeing is that developers are very, very interested in using the new OS,” Evans writes. “Yosemite refreshes the developer toolkit, enabling devs to add exciting new features to existing apps and to build new solutions we’ve never seen on Mac or iOS device until now.”
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