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Apple Binds Macs to IPads With Mountain Lion: Rich Jaroslovsky
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Mountain Lion, the latest Mac operating system, introduces more than 200 new features but seems to have only one overarching goal: binding your computer ever more firmly to your iPhone and iPad, while binding you ever more firmly to Apple.
Compared to the previous version of Apple’s OS X software, Lion -- which overhauled everything from how programs are launched to how you scroll through a web page -- Mountain Lion is an incremental improvement, bringing to the Mac several functions already familiar to users of the company’s mobile devices.