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.
The save sheet was amazing for someone that's had their computer hijacked by a dialog box. Clicking on a menu would also stop your computer in its tracks before OS X.
You have no idea how shitty Save As used to be this was a revelation back then. Its like when cars came out not needing the front crank to start it only. key to energize the starter motor while you sit inside the vehicle.
It's honestly insane that in the year 2021, Windows 11 STILL locks up an entire window when there's a dialog box open. macOS got this right nearly 22 years ago.
Wait a minute... So Windows *still* forces you to respond to a dialog box on another app before it lets you do anything else? Glad I jumped ship from Windows years ago, but I didn't realize Windows continues to do this. 😧
@@ElderStatesman No, it locks the window of the program that you're saving from, you can still interact with other windows and such. Still though, I do prefer Apple's approach here.
@@ElderStatesman that's not how modal dialogs works kek... macos save panel are also modal but they will let you move the window that the panel belongs to.
Seems odd to me to design an entire interface around this though. "Save" is not an async action. Either you want to save something or not... I've never in my life had the urge to go back to a save modal after doing something else.
Poockiy I bought a used macbook in like new condition on ebay for about 500$. It was 3 years old and still beat the shit out of a new windows machine that costs 800$.
light years ahead with all running software sharing one menu bar, not able to cut & paste oh yea it sure is light years behind linux, windows & any other modern OS
Melanie B well 95% of business workforce would say the same about OS X. A simple indeed search will reveal that the majority of companies are looking for windows/linux users. OS X is meh a shiny toy with no growth at all. Long live Linux!!
Its funny watching him introduce all the OSX revolutions they introduced, and seeing almost all these new innovations now being within Vista. Even the simple things like the Aqua, or just the way you can close windows that aren't the active windows...these were all little things OSX created. And still, OSX 10.0 is still better than the current Vista GUI.
2023 and it's amazing how many things they nailed conceptually back in the day. The save dialogs being tied to the respective windows seems to have been something that has gotten lost over the intervening years (unfortunately).
Why the heck am I watching this in 2022? ~ A software that’s over 2 decades old? Because…. I’m a tech junkie, because seeing where we came from to where we are now is something to appreciate, because it’s Steve Jobs - the master presenter. I could watch every single Apple Event that Jobs did and not get bored. He knew how to captivate the crowd regardless of what he was show you - or what seemed like, teaching you.
I miss Steve's sense of humor... he was so relatable and so welcoming in his presentations... he made you feel excited just as much as he was to introduce it... I wish Apple could take a note and come back to this style of presentation
It really is weird how backwards things have gotten. Even XP looked better... hell, at least Windows 98 could have a gradient on the window header. Everything's gotten flat and boring, even iOS/macOS.
@@MattExzy Big Sur looks even worse than Windows in many ways. This generation is really missing guys like Jobs, who'll tell the artists when their work actually looks terrible. Apple has gotten comfortable settling into some lifeless, squircle obsession, where everything looks uniform, sterilized and "clean." They've stopped drawing from natural beauty and instead following this "style" religiously.
@@MattExzy People erroneously associate lack of skeuomorphism with "lightweight," apparently. Even though the software in question is usually heavier than last decade's equivalent, and uses just as many draw calls, causing at least as many GPU/CPU wakeups. It's similar magical cargo cult nonsense to the 90's fad of clear/glass things being "pure." (No disrespect intended to the iMac.)
I don't know you, but to me is amazing that in 2000 they came up with something like that when Microsoft is not there yet. I mean, I have a quad core i5 2,5 GHz Lenovo with 16GB of ram and I tryed to do a simple resizing of an image thinking that it'll be a lot smoother, but and I don't know if my system is not fast enough, but it's undeniable that OSX resizing back then appear a lot smoother than what I see on my pc!
I think Apple has always made Aqua match its contemporary hardware. The earliest releases were translucent and colorful, matching the then current design language. But the latest computers are darker, sleeker, which is reflected in releases like Lion and Mountain Lion.
I wish Apple would let you choose a theme on OS X Lion like on Windows. If you get tired of the aluminum look you could choose to go for the white aqua styling. There was just something about the white opaque menubar that you don't get with the Leopard semi-transparent one.
It's easy to sniff at this, but like all the best ideas (going back to Mr. Darwin) it takes an incredible amount of think to get to simplicity - not just any kind, but the right simplicity. So checkboxes look like the way you'd tick something a list on paper - or using traffic lights familiar to the whole world, so unlike Windows where you have to co-operate with the developers limitations, it's made for the user's intuitions. I can respect what Apple do there.
@vantageIIx I know it was great in comparison back then. It's just that recently I've been thinking about movies that I went to see in the late 90s/early 2000s, and what the world was like at that point in time (because I tend to use movies as marker points in time for whatever reason). It just feels weird that in the year 2000 technology wasn't more advanced than it was. The last decade has just passed by so fast that I guess I forgot what it was like.
Yes. There were changes by the time 10.0 launched and then more changes (and stability upgrades) for 10.1 almost immediately. The OS has evolved very subtly since its introduction, so I don't quite remember specifically the changes back then (I've been a user since its introduction).
Every time I return to this video it looks blurrier than I remember. This makes me think that the only people watching these videos are those who have the original in their mind and can picture it in full HD.
The apple in the middle wasn't actually a menu at all but just decoration. They were going to do away with it altogether but decided against it. In any case the apple menu in OS X since 10.0 largely serves a different function than it did in pre-OS X. In OS 9 and below you could change the contents of it.
I have built over 30 PC's and they're all still running. I have never had a broken part that wasn't my fault. Read the web articles, the G4 cube was revolutionary but failed because Mac users found it very slow. Also, let's not forget other Mac missteps such as the new MacBook random shutdown issues (poor construction) the lawsuit over the iPod batteries, etc.
Unfortunately the audio is not synced. What is my suggestion that you can open this video in two tabs, and adjust the sound in first one with video in the second. That can be helpful if this unsynchronized audio angers you.
The real problem is TCO (total cost of ownership). You can upgrade PC's pretty cheap (if you buy online at NewEgg or at a local computer wholesaler, not CompUSA). Mac's are expensive to upgrade, if you can at all.
That is a application that Apple made call bomb.app and it would show when an application crashes, it doesn't crash the rest of the system with it like Mac OS 9 usually does. Jobs demonstrates it later on in the keynote.
Feels like the CGI materials from early pixar has been reuse to the mac os aqua theme and introduced first computer OS with CGI depth in 2000??? So they can prove to be first exist before the rest of OS are turned into CGI?
BTW, the difference is about 9 seconds. I managed to open twice this video with 9 seconds difference, and I had greatly synced picture with sound. Just in case if you would try to do it guys. :]
I miss the old UI, the system is getting better on 10.10, but the internet connection is worse. In the same wifi, my Chrome in Windows 7 loaded much faster than Safari on OSX10.10. On 10.9, it was good. Now it is just bad and slow.
+Ruohong Zhao I think one of the tricks with a mac is to have at least 8 GB of ram and an SSD makes a mac run very fast. Of course this would also make a PC very fast but for Macs I think it really needs it. I have 16GB of ram and SSD and my computer really runs instantaneous with my web browser. I do use Safari as I find firefox and chrome to be slow.
WOW...this was in 2000? People are going nuts over insignificant little things in the OS that we don't even notice today. I know it was revolutionary back then, but it's really incredible at how archaic operating systems were just 10 years ago. Now the iPhone/iPad OS is changing the way people think of an OS. In 10 years, the iPad will look archaic.
Sarah Kenney it’s 8 years later and the iPad isn’t archaic. Hasn’t changed much, Steve Jobs was the big innovator for tech and Android has never innovated, but it’s (still) awesome. Writing this on an iPad
You are correct, but that's a by-product of what I've been saying. Apple and their users put the products on a pedestal, so when there is a problem, it gets magnified. When you run commercials saying how your products are built better that the other guy's, you open yourself up to embarrassment. But, even though I do not own any Apple products (yet) I still trust Apple more, and that counts for a lot.
The fact is, PC's represent choice. Mac's have stood for elitism and blind snobbery, even in the face of embarrassing problems. This trend may be changing, however, with the Mac Mini. As I said, it's gotten under my skin and I want one!
That's true. I think it goes without saying that Microsoft is holding on through coercion and trickery (i.e. AOL) instead of innovation and quality (i.e. Apple). I mean, when was the last time anybody was EXCITED about a new Microsoft product?
@Hanklink1014 i love the animations that apple does for some reason. it makes it fun when i use my ibook. and all the colors. i know that makes me sound very simple minded, but when your in college and have been working on a paper for a few hours its fun to have a humble computer interacting with you. :)
I remember how excited I was to download the beta for OS X for the first time to experience the mind-blowing Aqua interface. Yes - it was a quantum leap over Windows.
