After several months of public beta testing, Apple’s latest OS X update is ready for the limelight.
Apple just announced that Yosemite will be available for download today for free on the Mac App Store. Yosemite is a more significant upgrade than last year’s OS X Mavericks, adding several new features that allow Macs to work together with iOS devices.
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On stage today, Apple’s software head Craig Federighi noted that more than 1 million people have downloaded the Yosemite beta over the past few months.
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Yosemite also brings a slew of new upgrades: Spotlight search can now search across the web and your documents; devices can now Airplay content to each other without connecting to the same Wi-Fi network; and you can now Airdrop files between iOS and OS X devices (a feature I’ve grown to love in my testing).
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