On February 16th Apple unveil their new Desktop OS Mountain Lion. As any tech addict I rush to see the details of this upgrade. Well I was REALLY disappointed. Last summer I was one of the first adopter of OS X Lion as well as one of the early adopters of iCloud in October. Ever since I have been hoping that Apple will improve the features and the communication between devices.

My Griefs were:

- iMessage was only cross iOS and not compatible with iChat whereas FaceTime was enabled in every Apple devices.

- The reminders never worked for me, always messy (it is stupid to have the reminder not ordered by due date!) and I never managed to unable the location base reminders.

- iCloud document. It is crazy that Dropbox works so well, with a dedicated Dropbox folder that sync immediately the documents that are in on every devices. I did not understand why it did not worked the same for iCloud. Uploading the document on iCloud.com from the desktop computer in order to have it on the iDevices was annoying and downloading it from the cloud to have it back was inconvenient and led to duplicates. So I basically put my document on Dropbox mac to open it in the iDevice and then send it by mail to have it back to my computer. Annoying right?

I beleived that at some point Apple will fix this minor inconveniences after reading the feedbacks. Well they do but not with a tiny update but with a big paid upgrade. And the other new features are everything but amazing or crazy. Twitter integration who cares? From a phone on the go it can be useful but from a computer I am not sure… I am not sure either that releasing new OS with so few major improvement is a good idea overall.

In addition, I already tested the new iMessage for mac which is available in Beta and I am not really enthusiastic. Of course it’s really great to send iMessage from my mac to my friends’ iPhones, it creates duplicates on the phones. It is not the same conversation which is weird. I assume it’s going to be fixed soon but in the meanwhile it is not flawless.

About an other feature that grabbed my attention, safari is finally having an omnibox like Chrome. However Safari is still too slow to bring me back after a Chrome experience.

I also miss iBook for mac. Every competitors are cross platforms, why not iBooks? And what about preview in iDevices?

What about you? Are you excited by this announcement? Is there some features that are missing according to you?