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San Francisco (CNN) — Apple’s Steve Jobs took the stage to a standing ovation at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday.
Apple started the event by highlighting features for a new version of its operating system, called Mac OS X Lion.
The operating system, due out for Mac computers this summer, will cost $30. It takes major cues from Apple’s mobile operating systems for the iPhone and iPad.
Mac owners will use finger “gestures” on a computer’s trackpad to control many of the new features of Lion.
“If anyone was doubting that iOS and OS X are converging, the use of the trackpad for gestures should convince you. It’s incredibly tablet-like. But I wonder how much getting used to it’ll take?” Gizmodo wrote on its live blog of the event, which started at 1 p.m. ET.
The press conference is part of Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference — WWDC for short — which takes place in San Francisco and usually includes the unveiling of a new iPhone.
That likely isn’t the case this year. Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, who has been on medical leave, said this event is about software — not hardware.
“If the hardware is the brain … of our products, the software is their soul. And today, we are going to talk about software,” Jobs said to a packed audience.
The company may instead announce an iPhone in September, when new iPods are generally paraded on stage, analysts say.
For live updates from WWDC, follow the @CNNTech Twitter feed.
Insiders expect Jobs to announce a new music-storage product called iCloud as well as an update to the company’s mobile operating system, iOS.
Other Mac OS X Lion features include full-screen apps.
Apple says it is now the biggest seller of PC software with the Mac App Store. That puts the company ahead of Best Buy, says Philip Schiller, Apple’s marketing executive.
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