Apple to offer Lion through USB drive
The company will release the Mac OS X Lion USB in August.
Reuters reports that this should make the transition to Lion easier in emerging markets that have less-than-reliable Web infrastructure. Those are markets in which Apple is starting to find some traction, as Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained last week during the company's third-quarter 2011 earnings report.
He noted that the surge in Mac and iPhone sales during the quarter were boosted by new Apple customers in China, other Asia-Pacific region countries, the Middle East and Brazil.
Features of the overhauled Mac OS X include a 'Launchpad' view that lays out app icons in an iPad-style grid. Users will be able to double-tap the Mac trackpad to zoom in and out, as if they were using an iPad or iPhone, says MSN BC.com.
The operating system can quickly switch apps and sites to full-screen mode, as if running them on a handheld device.
USA Today notes that the company said in statement users are buying Lion faster than any other OS release in Apple's history Lion is the eighth major iteration in the 10-year history of OS X.
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