In announcing the new Mac App store at an event in Cupertino today, Steve Jobs revealed that Apple has hit 7 billion iPhone and iPad downloads from the iOS App Store. This is notable as the Apple  just announced 6.5 billion App Store downloads in September, a

Today during their Back to the Mac event today at their headquarters in Cupertino, Apple gave a first glimpse of the next version of OS X. As anticipated, OS X 10.7 is going to be called “Lion”. What perhaps wasn’t so anticipated (though we guessed), was how inspired it would be by iOS.

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