OS X Mountain Lion reaches golden master status
Get your hard drives ready, because Mountain Lion is on the verge of arrival. Apple released the golden master (GM) of Mountain Lion on Monday afternoon through its developer portal, signaling that the company is close to the final release of the next version of OS X.
The GM is limited to registered developers until the final version is unleashed upon the Mac App Store later this month. Apple has not formally announced a release date for Mountain Lion just yet, but did say it would happen sometime this month when it previewed Mountain Lion at WWDC in June. Still, we have a couple of theories about when the release might hit the tubes. Apple has scheduled its third quarter earnings call for Tuesday, July 24th, and the company has a tendency to release products immediately following those calls. Specifically, last year's release of 10.7 Lion came the day after the third quarter earnings call, leading us to believe that Mountain Lion might come down the line on the 25th.
