Apple offers developers fully-baked Mountain Lion

Apple offers developers fully-baked Mountain Lion

Apple's next major unharness of OS X, dubbed Mountain Lion, is in its final testing stages.

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Apple these days gave developers constant version of the software which will be released to customers later this month.

Mountain Lion is that the followup to last year's Lion, and represents the eighth iteration of OS X. Apple 1st debuted the software in late-February with a preview unharness, and has since followed with some of beta versions that squashed bugs and introduced new options.

As a fast recap, Mountain Lion brings some of iOS options to Macs, together with the notes and reminders apps. It additionally adds many different things, like Twitter integration and Apple's Game Center and iMessage services. there is additionally a replacement security feature known as Gatekeeper, designed to fend off malware by controlling what applications will and can't be put in.

At its annual developers conference last month, Apple said it might unharness the software as a $19.99 update, further as providing it as a free upgrade for anyone who purchased a replacement Mac.

(via Macrumors)Apple has still not provided a firm unharness date for Mountain Lion. Last year the corporate offered a equally general unharness calendar, then shocked watchers by asserting a next-day unharness throughout its third-quarter earnings decision. the corporate may do constant at its upcoming earnings decision, that takes place Tuesday, July 24.