One of the more interesting features coming out soon in Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion release is the built in Social Sharing to Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, and Flickr. When Mountain Lion becomes available later this month, it will not include Facebook, which if I had to bet will be timed to release at the same time iOS 6 ships.This video below provides and overview of how this social sharing works and how tightly Apple has integrated Social Media into the core functions of the operating system. In my testing of this new feature what I felt was missing were the ability to post to fan pages or the ability to tag people in pictures, etc. Within twitter while I could attach URL’s or Pictures, there was no way to shorten URL’s. There were three Social Networks I would love to see added to this new feature: YouTube, Google+, and Pinterest. I hope over time either Apple adds these are opens this up to developers.
This integration, I think will be one of the most used features of the new OS, and again demonstrates how Apple continues to differentiate itself! What do you think of this particular feature of Mountain Lion, and what features are you most interested in? Are there other features you think Apple missed altogether?
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