Apple considers the most promising variant of OS X -
convergence of desktop and mobile operating systems. The company intend to make
the experience of working with any of the devices was the same. Under this
concept, iPhone and iPad manufacturer decided to move the functionality of
voice assistant Siri, which is now available on smart phones, iPods and tablets
Apple, on computers running OS X 10.9.
According to the source, Siri will replace regular speech
recognition engine in Mac and will somehow interact with search Spotlight.
Probably assistant print speech recognition on the Mac platform to a whole new
level, users will be ample opportunity to set the text, voice control software
and more. Ability to work a personal assistant Apple on desktop machines is
described in one of the company's patent applications.
Mapping service in a test version before OS X 10.9 specific
framework MapKit, which enables developers to integrate maps into your own
applications. It is assumed that in the future Apple may not be limited to just
that and add to the new OS separate program Maps. However, this conjecture has
yet to be confirmed.
Over the last few years Apple has moved to an annual renewal
cycle desktop platform OS X. The latest version - OS X 10.8 - was published in
the shop Mac App Store in July of this year. Previous - OS X 10.7 Lion -
launched in July 2011. Earlier update cycle was twice as long as: OS X 10.6
Snow Leopard was released in August 2009, and OS X 10.5 Leopard - in October
2007. Thus, a new version, under the alleged codename Lynx, expected in the
summer of 2013.
Earlier in the Internet have been recorded dozens of
computers that are running an early developer version of OS X 10.9.
