AppleInsider Staff
"OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the world's most advanced operating system, will soon be available to millions of Mac users around the world," the Mac maker wrote in an email to developers. "Submit your Lion apps for review now so they can be on the Mac App Store when Lion ships this month."
The Cupertino-based company went on to recommend that developers build, test and compile their apps using the Mac OS X Lion Gold Master seed issued earlier this month and Xcode 4.1 for Lion GM seed, which was just released alongside iOS 5.0 beta 3 ">on Monday.
All indications are that Lion is on track for a release near the end of the week. People close to the matter told AppleInsider last Thursday that Apple is set to undertake preparations for Lion in its retail stores later this week, with a refreshed MacBook Air to follow soon after.
The $29.99 operating system upgrade will launch exclusively on the Mac App Store, marking the first time Apple has attempted an online delivery method for a major release of its flagship desktop OS. Last month, AppleInsider exclusively reported that the company has held back on new Mac models in order to image new machines with a finalized build of Lion.
Lion sports more than 250 new features, some of which are brought from the iPad and iOS back to the Mac. Notable additions include full-screen applications, auto-save functionality, an iOS-style homescreen, application launcher and new multi-touch gestures.
For more on Mac OS X Lion, see AppleInsider's in-depth Inside Mac OS X Lion series.
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This will be an exciting week. Lion is a major update and I believe once people grasp that sales will be massive. It is also good enough to entice people with older hardware to upgrade. I see some really strong numbers in Apples future.
Good job AppleInsider... Don't want anyone stealing that image from you.
I reserve the right to be wrong, but if they are just asking for apps now I would doubt we will see Lion this week.
I reserve the right to be wrong, but if they are just asking for apps now I would doubt we will see Lion this week.
I, too, reserve the right for you to be wrong.
I reserve the right to be wrong, but if they are just asking for apps now I would doubt we will see Lion this week.
Yeah, an AppStore review by Apple would take a week or so in the past so I doubt it would be this week. 29.7.2011 is more likely. Or the Monday prior.