On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:57 AM, objectwerks inc wrote:
> http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/24/apple_mac_os_x_ten_years_old/
And it's been a pretty good ride, so far! OS X is what prompted me to switch
platforms after almost 12 years on DOS and Windows. I've been at this party
since 10.1.0 and I have no desire to switch back yet.
I've found myself wondering exactly where Mac OS X is going, as I don't see OS
X as we know it lasting for too many more releases. It seems pretty obvious
that iOS and OS X are going to merge at some point down the line, having
started as the same thing and then split, so I suppose we'll come full circle.
It's just a question of whether we'll have a smooth integration of the two or
some kind of harder cutover.
We used to have tongue-in-cheek discussions about what Apple would call the
release that comes after 10.9 ("OS Ten 11? OS Ten, Ten point Ten? Yikes!"), but
now it seems we may never actually reach that point. I recall Steve Jobs saying
in 2001 that Mac OS X was the system for the next 15 years, and I find myself
chuckling at the possibility that he really was prescient enough to predict its
eventual retirement, as opposed to merely trying to convince everyone that
Apple was not going to return eventually to OS 9 if OS X failed. It seems crazy
to think back on how many die-hards hated OS X, claimed nearly all the changes
were purely cosmetic, and hoped for Apple to go back and further develop OS 9.
(No offense intended to anyone on the list! :)
Also, with no OS X Lion Server release, and with the XServe and XServe RAID
long dead, Apple's focus on any sort of business market seems to have gone out
the window (not that they ever really had much of one to begin with...) though
there could always be some surprises with Apple cloud services in the future.
The times, they are a changin'.
Happy birthday, Mac OS X!
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