By request, here is when Steve Jobs introduced Mac OS X for the first time ever. I edited the video myself to show the very best moments of the presentation & split it up into 3 parts on account of youtube's bogus time limit.
@ash Tim is just naming it. Now calling Monterey 12, such a jump Steve would never have done. Monterey should have just been 11.2 There's respect for nothing nowadays. So sad
Yeah that's why I still run iOS 6.1.4 on my primary iPhone 5 64GB. I hate that they ditched their flagship UI when Steve Jobs died and Jony Ives the hardware designer, was given control of the software design as well and came out with his flat "button", neon-colored iOS 7 abomination.?
God I miss Apple events like this. Even the beginning few seconds of the clip "..but we're not done yet". The iconic "but wait there's more" back in the day with Apple had a whole OPERATING SYSTEM after it. And those "goals" slides?? Amazing. Clear concise vision and communicated clearly. RIP Jobs and Apple :(
That’s very interesting that they kept it around for that long. They got rid of Rosetta for Power PC apps in 2011 but kept Carbon around for another 8 years?
Its truly is unbelievable that OSX was first shown in 2000. I remember when I first got OSX running on my oooold iMac when I was just a kid. OSX was such an advanced operating system for 2000, and still in 2008 its way ahead of its time. Apple and Steve are just incredible.
I learnt a lot about computers from watching my parents on the iMac back in the late 2000's. I always envied my dad for solving computer problems. The computer was 'Daddy's thing.' Ten years later, I'm solving the same computer problems as him 🙂 We all thought it would be my brother to inherit the computer brains, but no. It was me.
Today, my friend had an issue with the colour space of her PPTX when exported as PDF on her Windows machine. I helped her converting it on my Mac instead. And no more problem. Then I came back to this video just to see how mind-blowing it was 21 years ago that PDF was native on Mac OS X .
Watching this, I still can't believe this amazing man is no longer with us. Rest in peace, Steve. You were one of a kind. I'm running this on Lion and I adore it - best OS I've ever used.
Say what you want about steve, but when he was still with us, he could sell you anything, it could call a rock an iRock and say its the best damn rock you could buy and people would still buy it! RIP
I don't think thats true, he just sold great stuff (The beste you could get. . For doing that, pointing out the aspects of the product which make it the best you could get is enough to sell it. He was very enthusiastic about it because he knew about the products truth, the soul of the product. That what Apple was about. (WAS unfortenuatly)
It was such a beauty back then; I still have a soft spot for this gorgeous design; Steve really did care about all the ins and outs of the experience and the quality of the product... I feel like Apple has lost so so much sight of this... give us that wow factor we were getting here when Steve was still around... I know; its a testament to what he provided to the Apple experience but truly; take inspiration and give us that wow factor back... I want to feel like my money being spent went to something truly special!!
Malik Gounachev I was grandfathered in from the old Google Profiles stuff. Back then all it required was a credit card to prove you were who you said you were.
I love Unix systems, so I am using Linux at the moment. The reason that I have considered switching to Mac is the best you can because you have a solid Unix system with a friendly interface and include security for a major company like Apple. And the most important for me (developer), is that I can use propiertary and software from Microsoft or use open source GNU software like QT, GTK, Python, and so on.
It was an interesting move going from a proprietary kernel to a UNIX-based system. That's one reason I've considered switching to Mac next time I upgrade rather than building/buying a new PC.
So glad I jumped ship and recently bought my first iMac with Mountain Lion! Windows 8 is a total dogs breakfast, and I have finally discovered the magic of OSX! Why did I stick with windows all these years?!
@MBP6705 sorry can i ask how macs GUI has changed... the older version of mac os i have used was i think 7 or 8 not too sure... its still the same just with a dock
Jobs worked on arcade games at Atari before founding Apple, and was involved in the technical aspect of things. Gates was billed 'Head Programmer' at Microsoft and, whilst I'm very well aware that DOS wasn't written by him, he's still a software programmer.
After so many years saving i will buy my first macbook and finally run OSX, so happy, since I was kid always wanted Apple computers but in my country is extremely expensive like 3000$ some entry level version.
@SyncAllData I think the Darwin kernel is open source. That's how OSx86, a project for getting OS X working on PC hardware, was even possible. And Steve Jobs did mention "Linux" in this presentation, but Mac OS X is based on NeXTSTEP, which is the operating system for the computer company NeXT Computer, which Steve Jobs worked in before joining Apple again.
@theif519 Or you can click and hold and voila! it is a right click, or you can click on the right side of the trackpad. There are many alternatives, but if u still want the 2 button mouse just but an external mouse. and OSX runs very fast for me.
At the time, Windows 98SE and Windows NT 4.0 were Microsoft's primary operating systems. NT 4.0 had 4 different versions on the market. 5 if you count the embedded version. Also Windows Me and Windows 2000 were right around the corner, and everyone knew or guessed that 2000 would also have several different versions like NT 4.0 had at the time.
how on earth could you find use for six macs? and also, irreverentmoose was referring to the new RU-vid app included in iPhone 3.0, not apps in general.
@bonchbonch Fragmentation happens across all filesystems (unless defragmentation methods are build into the FS) and cause slow access if the data is fragmented across the drivers. Now this only will slow down older and slower HDD's. If you get a modern HDD, there is no need for defragging. Also, with SSD's you cannot defrag them due to the random access capabilities (no head to move back and forth). OSX never had a progress bar, just a spinning wheel. Also, no progress bar in XP +.
@bonchbonch Explain how on earth the registry slows your computer and explain how removing invalid entries speed it up. Windows does not "hang" when there's an invalid entry, an application will simply ignore it/overwrite it when accessed. Sure, it will leave it there, it and it's few bytes of storage, but in now way does it slow down a computer. I will admit, booting OSX is a hella lot faster than booting windows, but once up and running, applications etc. launch much faster.
CDubs HasIt You could use Messages (was iChat before 10.8) or even one of the many open source multi-messaging applications like Pidgin or Adium (which is based off Pidgin, but specifically for OS X).
@vahnfish For starters, defragmentation will slow registry access, as will the wasted space of unused entries. OS X boots so fast that they actually removed the progress bar when starting up. Applications do not launch "much faster" on Windows. If anything, they're slower. Not to mention the fact they're written in the ancient C-based Win32 API which dates back to the early 1980s.
