Yosemite's traffic share triples after public beta debuts
The preview of Apple's OS X Yosemite public beta last week resulted in a tripling of the upgrade's share of online traffic.
The preview of Apple's OS X Yosemite public beta last week resulted in a tripling of the upgrade's share of online traffic.
Apple still has redemption codes available for its public beta of OS X Yosemite.
Apple today released the public beta of OS X Yosemite, giving non-developers their first chance to preview an upcoming Mac OS in 14 years.
Apple will release its first public beta of OS X Yosemite early Thursday
Apple may release a public beta for OS X Yosemite as early as next week, according to an online report Monday.
Developer interest in OS X Yosemite appears to be quadruple that of 2013's Mavericks.
Apple has begun replacing Google Maps with its own mapping technology on iCloud.com, specifically in the Web-based "Find My iPhone" service.
Gartner today scaled back its forecast of Windows' near future, saying that while Microsoft's OS will power a growing number of devices this year and next, the gains will be smaller than it projected in January.
Google this week announced a partial answer to Apple's "Continuity" technology that will let Android-powered smartphones interact with Chrome OS on Chromebooks.
The decline of OS X Snow Leopard has accelerated in the last three months, perhaps because users now know that Apple has stopped patching the five-year-old OS.
Apple's Handoff - one of the key new features of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite - will work only on newer Macs that support Bluetooth 4.0 and the Bluetooth LE (low energy) technology.
There's no good reason Microsoft can't adopt Apple's "Handoff" technology in its iOS and OS X Office apps, according to an analyst.
Apple's new Handoff feature in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite not only lets users pick up on one app from where they left off on another, but it can "forward" them to a website on an iPhone, iPad or Mac.
Despite the iCloud enhancements and new features Apple talked up at WWDC, don't expect the company to broadly compete in the online storage market.
OS X Yosemite will run on about eight out of every ten Macs, a boon for customers who want to upgrade this fall, but also another proof point that 'good enough' has contributed to the personal computer business's stagnation.