Starting today, customers who purchase a Mac are eligible for a free copy of OS X Mountain Lion when it becomes available.
Developers also may get a closer look at OS X Mountain Lion, the Mac operating system scheduled for release this summer.
Twitter is now integrated in iOS and OS X Mountain Lion, and I would guess will be in the next version of the iTunes and App Stores and Apple TV, as well.
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"The pace of innovation on the Mac is amazing, OS X Mountain Lion comes just a year after the incredibly successful launch of Lion, " said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
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And, as always, we got a pile of the month's latest and greatest gadgets, including the Google Nexus 7, Hasbro's new Lazer Tag guns and a quick trip around OS X Mountain Lion.
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But, in another example of the slippage of detail orientation in Cupertino, OS X Mountain Lion dispenses with Software Update altogether, relying wholly on the retooled App Store for updates and creating an unintended consequence for Lion users.
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"We have a great WWDC planned this year and can't wait to share the latest news about iOS and OS X Mountain Lion with developers, " said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, in a written statement.
The OS X Mountain Lion Up-to-Date upgrade is available at no additional charge via the Mac App Store to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after June 11, 2012.
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While there won't be many significant shocks for those who've been participating in Tweetbot's alpha and beta stages, the finished version gives everyone running OS X Mountain Lion a major and sometimes more advanced alternative to official choices, such as TweetDeck, as well as existing third-party options like Twitterrific.
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Support of Mac OS X 10.7.x Lion, Mac OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion, Windows 7 SP1 32 and 64 bit, Windows 8 32 and 64 bit operating systems.
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Mountain Lion requires Lion or Snow Leopard (OS X v10.6.8 or later), 2GB of memory and 8GB of available space.
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Named "Mountain Lion, " the new version of OS X is the clearest sign yet of Apple's belief that the mobile, laptop and desktop world are destined to converge and that Apple wants to be a catalyst.
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As with last year's OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple is doing its darndest to make the Mountain Lion upgrade irresistibly painless.
Mac: Mountain Lion has sold 7M copies since July, fastest ramp of the OS X releases to date.
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