There are a number of great features headed to OS X Mountain Lion. Notification Center, Messages, and AirPlay are all going to play prominent roles in the Mac desktop experience later this summer, and that is nothing if not awesome. But when I read this morning’s announcement, I actually got more excited about certain desktop features coming right back to iOS later this year.
In particular, I’d love to see the new universal address and search bar in Mountain Lion’s Safari (as seen on the Verge) come to Mobile Safari on iOS. It’s encouraging to see Apple clean up Safari’s look on the desktop, and it should just be a matter of time now before we see the change make its way to iOS. I really love the universal address bar in Grazing Browser, and I’ve also heard of a few jailbreak tweaks (like UniBar) that provide similar functionality to Mobile Safari, so it would be lovely to see Apple catch up in this regard.
The other change I’d like to see is much more basic. The Messages beta on the Mac sends messages when you press the return key, and I think this behaviour should be replicated on the iPad, if not also on the iPhone. There are some arguments to be made for being pressing return to add line breaks to a text or iMessage, but I think the whole messaging process would be a lot smoother if return were replaced with a send key.
Not only would this make Messages feel like most other instant messaging apps out there (where enter/return is the standard for sending a message off), but it would also make Messages on the iPad a lot more compatible with hardware keyboards. It’s ridiculous to me that I can type messages to a friend on my Bluetooth keyboard, but that I still have to reach for the iPad’s screen to send them. A simple key press would be so much simpler. But this really isn’t a new kind of rant for me. If you follow iSource, you may have seen me rant about the lack of hardware keyboard support on the iPad before.
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