Expect to find items such as a bone-in cowgirl ribeye laced with a house-made Worcestershire sauce and a side of beer and bacon braised brussel sprouts or a salad of Georgia mountain apple carpaccio, Caw Caw Creek country ham prosciutto and Point Reyes blue cheese tossed with a sweet shallot vinaigrette.
It is filled with great mini case studies that include Nordstroms, Eastern Mountain Sports, and Apple.
FORBES: No Jamba Juice Line For You: iPhone That Order In With PayPal
At its WWDC developers conference last month in San Francisco, Apple said that Mountain Lion will have 200 new features.
But Apple recently updated its Mountain Lion operating system and completely broke parental controls.
FORBES: First There Was Apple's MapGate, Now Welcome ParentGate
Cherry and apple orchards line whispering mountain creeks, which suddenly burst into waterfalls on exposed rock faces.
Only after intense discussions between Jobs and Intuit CEO William Campbell (who is an Apple board member) did Mountain View, Calif.
The trouble with competing with Apple, aside from the supply chain mountain to surmount, is that the smarts and guts of the iPad have been in development (loosely) for a couple of decades (going back to the graphical features of Objective C developed at NeXT).
FORBES: No Worries, iPad, Amazon's Android Tablet Is Just a Nook-Killer.
As with last year's OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple is doing its darndest to make the Mountain Lion upgrade irresistibly painless.
"At that moment I felt that taller than the mountain, " said the former hotelier, roadbuilder and apple farmer, who now has the greatest of stories to tell his 17 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
"We have a great WWDC planned this year and can't wait to share the latest news about iOS and OS X Mountain Lion with developers, " said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, in a written statement.
Apple is due to release its latest OS - Mountain Lion - in late summer 2012.
So while Apple impresses consumers, their arch-rival at Mountain View profits.
FORBES: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Apple's Downfall
They lived in the same house in Mountain View where their son would later hand-build the first Apple computers.
In fact, all your stuff being available on all your Apple gizmos at all times is a recurring theme in Mountain Lion.
Apple has accounted for more than 200 new features in Mountain Lion, many of which will matter to lots of people.
The Mountain View company is not the first to do this -- Apple did it with the iPhone and iPad back in 2010 -- but email is a relatively new frontier.
ENGADGET: Gmail now has support for Cherokee language, adds virtual keyboard as well
Apple, at this moment, remains the king of the consumer technology mountain.
Called Mountain Lion, it won't be as big a change as Windows 8, partly because Apple already has integrated a lot of touch gestures and tablet-type features into the Mac using the touch pad, and has given no indication it plans touch screens.
"The pace of innovation on the Mac is amazing, OS X Mountain Lion comes just a year after the incredibly successful launch of Lion, " said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
ENGADGET: Apple brings Dictation to the Mac, tells Siri to stay in the car
Green Mountain sells more than 200 varieties of K-Cup portion packs including brands of coffee, tea, hot apple cider, iced teas, hot cocoa and other dairy-based beverages.
Twitter is now integrated in iOS and OS X Mountain Lion, and I would guess will be in the next version of the iTunes and App Stores and Apple TV, as well.
FORBES: The Anti-IPO: Is Apple Grooming Twitter For All-Out Acquisition?
Dictation is built into Mountain Lion and allows you to dictate text anywhere you can type, whether you're using an app from Apple or a third party developer.
ENGADGET: Apple brings Dictation to the Mac, tells Siri to stay in the car
应用推荐