By: Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at San Francisco’s Moscone Center June 6 to kick off his company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Following his introduction, a series of Apple executives detailed the upcoming Mac OS X “Lion” and iOS 5 operating systems, as well as the company’s iCloud service. New features of Mac OS Lion include a baked-in Mac App Store, which offers access to a wide variety of full-screen apps. A spiritual descendent of the App Store long available for iOS devices like the iPhone and the iPad, the Mac App Store is perhaps one of the biggest examples of how Apple’s advances in mobile-device software are beginning to influence its work on laptops and desktops. Clicking the LaunchPad icon in the Mac’s dock will open a grid-like page of apps and folders reminiscent of iOS.
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