Happy Birthday, Mac OS X
Mac OS X turns five today. John Siracusa of Ars Technica has an article chronicling its history.
For me at least, the success of OS X is due to the "How did I live without this?" feeling I get every time a new OS upgrade comes out. I'm not talking about just features wise, because who knows the last time I used the Dashboard or Smart Folders was, but also performance-wise and UI refinement (pinstripes anyone?). Siracusa sums it up nicely:
A side-by-side test-drive of Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.4 is shocking. The eternal debate is whether this gap exists because 10.4 is so good, or because 10.0 was so, so bad.
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