Once you get beyond the basics of email and calendar, you run into gaps. There's a growing set of things that a modern user expects to be able to do on any platform - be it phone or tablet or laptop. And when you look at how Apple is updating them, you can detect a theme: they're getting way better at talking to each other. With El Capitan, we have the usual performance improvements and bug fixes, but there are also a lot of app updates. But inside those releases are signposts that point to the future direction of the OS. In the yearly cadence of OS releases, roughly every other one ends up being smaller - and El Capitan is the “small” one. It’s coming this fall, and there will be a public beta beginning sometime in July.
At WWDC 2015 last week, Apple unveiled the next version of Mac OS X, El Capitan.
