You see, it used to be that on small screens with windows (lowercase, not necessarily Windows), you were really using a mouse to move the viewport. But as much as it is about matching iOS, it’s also about fixing what’s long been broken. Yes, scrolling has been reversed in Lion. It’s funny that what is really one of the smaller tweaks to the OS is the one that’s going to be talked about the most and will have some users totally up in arms. Whereas the iPad/computer switch used to break my brain, the smallest little tweak has fixed it: inverted scrolling. As a heavy iPad user, I feel much more at home switching between that device and a laptop running Lion. OS X needed to catch up or get out of the way. This is how the majority of users now interact with and experience Apple products.
And the iOS devices, themselves built entirely around touch/gesture based environments, now far trump Mac sales. This shouldn’t be the least bit surprising considering that nearly three-quarters of Apple’s Mac sales are now notebooks. It’s a flavor that favors notebook PCs and touch/gesture-based environments. The truth is that it’s still much closer to the OS X side of things, but it’s a newer flavor of OS X.
When Apple first unveiled OS X Lion last fall, it was billed as “ OS X meets iOS“. It’s both the pinnacle of OS X as we’ve known it, and it points to what’s coming in the next ten years. And it shouldn’t be surprising that Apple chose to name this version after the king of the jungle. And now the latest version is upon us, OS X Lion (or “10.7” in the old parlance) - the big cat nicknames have now been formalized.
Here we are a full ten years after the launch of OS X. It was for OS X - 10.3 “Panther” at the time, to be exact - I was addicted.įast forward to today. It wasn’t for the hardware, which I found slow and outdated compared to my relatively decked-out Dell laptop.
After a few weeks of using it on a daily basis, I bought myself one - the cheapest iBook I could find. I had a job on Warner Bros’ lot, where the computer at my desk was a Mac. In case you couldn’t tell from popular television shows and movies, Hollywood is a Mac-dominated town. It would not be the last.Ī few months later, I was working in California, in Hollywood. It was the first Apple product I had ever bought. I basically didn’t think about Apple, OS X, or even the iPod until almost three years later when I broke down and bought a 40 GB iPod so I would have all my music with me on a drive out to California. The iPod was announced just two days prior, but it wouldn’t launch until November.Įven ten years ago, it was a different time. I got a free MP3 player with my purchase at Best Buy. I bought Windows XP the day it came out - exactly one month after Puma - October 25, 2001.
Still wasn’t sold though, Windows XP was coming out the following month. I recall going to check the new version out at a CompUSA. By September, Apple has already rolled out the first big upgrade, OS X 10.1 “Puma”. This initial version of OS X Lion called “Cheetah” seemed buggy, and slow. And I remember thinking that I really wished Windows looked like this.īut I wasn’t entirely sold. I stood and watched a few demos, but mostly I just played with the new OS. I recall riding my bike to the engineering school to see a demo of the new OS that was being put on by Apple. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before. The Mac was something I was forced to use at school. Sure, Windows Me sucked, but Windows 95 and 98 were solid. I thought I probably would never own a Mac. We apologize for any inconveniences this has caused, but we believe this was the right tradeoff for the continual evolution of Fusion 360.Ten years ago, I was not a Mac user. More information on upgrading from OS X 10.7, you can check out the page here:įusion 360 will continue to run on OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) and OS X Mavericks (10.9).
We decided to make this change due to the numerous graphics issues you’ve all experienced in previous updates, and this should dramatically improve the graphics performance, especially on older hardware.ĭon’t worry – for those of you who are still on 10.7, you can upgrade to OS X Mavericks (10.9) for free by downloading and installing it from the Mac App Store. Heads up to Fusion 360 users on OS X Lion (10.7):ĭue to important OpenGL graphics improvements made in this upcoming September 3rd update, Fusion 360 will no longer run on Apple machines running OS X Lion (10.7).