![]() Like Messages on the iPhone, Messages for Mac lets you hold multi-person chats and can optionally let people know when you’ve received and read their messages and when you’re typing a reply. Unlike SMS text messages, the iMessage system transfers data via the Internet, so there are no text charges. You can use Messages to send text or images to anyone on a device capable of using iMessage-namely, devices running iOS 5, and Macs running Messages. ![]() All the features of iChat are still there, but the app’s been renamed Messages and it now supports iMessage (and is now integrated with FaceTime). With Mountain Lion, the same thing’s happening to Lion. IMessage communication system, it renamed the app Messages. That app started life as the Text app, which was used just for SMS messaging on the iPhone, but when Apple introduced the new There’s never been a version of iChat for iOS-instead, Apple handles text messages using the Messages app. Here’s a look at what’s new so far, keeping in mind that Apple may add and change features over the next few months as we get closer to the planned release. I’ve had a few days to use an early development version of Mountain Lion. Apple hasn’t yet set a price or a release date more specific than “summer.” Mac developers will be able to download a developer release of Mountain Lion on Thursday, giving them several months to update their apps to take advantage of the new features in the release. Mountain Lion will be a paid upgrade to OS X like Lion, it will be available only via a Mac App Store download. And although there are no actual mountain lions in China, OS X Mountain Lion does add a raft of features to speak to users in the country that’s Apple’s biggest growth opportunity. Mountain Lion also brings options to limit which kinds of apps users can install. As the first OS X release post-iCloud, there’s also much more thorough integration with Apple’s data-syncing service.
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