Latest Lion build features iCal, iChat redesign The latest Lion Developer Preview released yesterday features some cool new redesigns of a few of Mac OS X's built-in apps. First up is a completely redesigned iCal. The new iCal now closely resembles the Calendar app you find on the iPad. It sports a leather header, complete with strips of torn away calendars. The overall look and feel of the new iCal, like its iPad counterpart, now closely resembles a physical desktop calender.
Another redesign, though less noticeable than the new iCal UI, is an updated iChat UI which combines AIM, Jabber, and Bonjour contacts together in one window. This is a welcome tweak, as previously iChat separated all your different contacts into separate windows.
With the above changes, I wouldn't be surprised to see Address Book in OS X getting an overhaul in a future Lion Developer Preview so it more closely matches the Address Book app on the iPad. While we're at it, since Apple seems to be merging the UIs of OS X and iOS, perhaps it's not too much to hope for that GameCenter for the Mac App Store and iBooks for OS X isn't too far off.
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