Week in Tech: Apple blurs the boundaries between iOS and OS X.

Apple's world wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is easy to parody: "boom", Steve Jobs says the assembled hordes scream "woo!" and a million hands go on their credit cards, what whatever shiny new thing buy Steve has just showed.
Were this year, things a little different. Apple may have shown not from shiny new hardware, but there are some to demonstrate very big ideas.
First's was to the OS X Lion, the latest and greatest version of Apple desktop operating system. As we predicted last year that boundaries between OS X and iOS - which leads to Apple's iPhones, iPads and iPod touches - are blurred.
Lion has many roller inspired features such as multi touch gestures, full screen applications and removed the 250 extensions, the their way into Apple's OS.
One thing that we do not predict was OS X lion's price: at $29.99 - at £ 21 plus VAT here - it is "stupid bezahlbarer", in particular, if you include your license for 5 devices. One reason it is so cheap is that there is no DVD this time: OS X be lion only as an app store for download.
OS x is the only Apple OS in the direction of a major update not. iOS 5 shortens the cable between iDevices and computer - you are wireless - capable, sync libraries, apps and even operating system updates, and the pretty hopeless notifications system is given An Android-style makeover. Interestingly is not iOS 5 from iPhone 3GS owners - closed, although if it is running as Flash on a 3GS, we be an iMac food.
Messaging and the cloud
Must iOS 5 What else to do? There is a new BlackBerry BBM-style messaging system Imessage\r for free texts between Apple devices; Magazines, primarily iBook's newspapers for magazines; Twitter integration, which is cooler, but probably less useful than Windows phone Facebook integration; a new version of Safari with tabbed-browsing; Location-aware memories; Take improved E-mail and the ability to see photos from the lock screen and with the Volume-Up button trigger the camera shutter.
Do you want to know more? Check out our comprehensive Guide to iOS's new features.
Enough for most companies would be new versions of desktop and mobile operating systems, but Steve Jobs had one more thing: iCloud. The service replaced the aging MobileMe, and unlike MobileMe it cost you a penny.
There is more to iCloud as e-Mail and calendar, although it's not that to. Its 5 GB of free disk space can share documents between your different devices, so for example you can write something in pages on the iPad and then iCloud access if you are on your desktop Mac
iCloud provides effortless photo syncing between devices - Apple calls this function photostream - and it also allows you to share your purchased music between devices.
Music match
Only purchases is music-sharing for iTunes: If you share stuff you want to buy from iTunes you need the $24.99 per year iTunes match, provided that it is through service in the United Kingdom. There is no word on a similar service for purchased movies or TV shows.
iCloud keeps also entitled cut the cable: it will automatically support your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch when you charge, although again, not iTunes music is not covered. iTunes purchases be added space, not to your 5 GB which is a nice touch.
Ten years ago, Steve jobs, Apple's "digital hub" announced strategy with the iMac in the center of your digital life. Now, jobs says, "are we demote the PC and Mac just a device his." The digital hub still exists, but Apple clearly thinks that it is to be moved to iCloud by the iMac.





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