Their penance? It's likely to be bug ridden, slower than you and us would find acceptable and generally not really ready for primetime. That means that while the likes of you and us have to wait a couple more months, developers creating apps for the new operating system get play with the new software early. So, here's the extensive line-up and explanation of the new bells and whistles of Lion that we first published back in February.įirst announced in October 2010, Apple's next generation operating system Mac OS X Lion has been seeded out to developers ahead of a summer 2011 public launch. UPDATE: While Steve Jobs and co demonstrated Mac OS X Lion at WWDC 2011 in San Francisco, it occurred to us that there is little or nothing new to the features that we haven't written about already.