hey guys it's Greg with Apple explained
and today we're gonna explore the
history of Mac OS 10 the first version
of Mac OS 10 was released back on March
24 2001 and marked the death of its
predecessor Mac OS 9 Steve Jobs actually
held a mock funeral for Mac OS 9 onstage
during the 2002 Worldwide Developers
Conference the release of Mac OS 10
began a new era for the Macintosh one
that was a bit furry since the title of
most Mac OS 10 releases were named after
big cats it all started with a public
beta that Apple codenamed Kodiak well
technically Mac OS tens development goes
all the way back to next the computer
company Steve Jobs founded after being
forced out of Apple but that's a story
for another time Kodiak the Mac OS 10
beta was released to the public on
September 13th 2004 $29.95 this was a
big deal for Apple since their previous
attempts at a Mac operating system
overhaul were failures
this release proved that Apple finally
had a new workable operating system that
wasn't just vaporware something worth
mentioning about the public beta is that
the Apple logo you see centered on the
menu bar had no functional purpose at
all it was only there for looks the
public beta enjoyed about 6 months of
life until Mac OS 10 cheetah was ready
to ship on March 24th 2001 cheetah was
the first major release of Mac OS 10 in
reach out for $129 it was a huge
departure from Mac OS 9 the most
noticeable change was the glossy user
interface Apple called aqua Steve Jobs
famously said one of the design goals
was when you saw it you wanted to lick
it and he wasn't wrong the aqua
interface set a new standard for just
how appealing a computer interface could
be the dock was another big change for
Mac OS 9 it was a new way of organizing
your applications and a welcome change
from the classic application launch menu
the terminal in Mac OS 10 allowed access
to the UNIX core something that was
never possible on previous versions of
Mac OS Mac OS 10 also featured a native
mail client address book and a new
native word processor called TextEdit
which replaced simple text in Mac OS 9
with all the good Mac OS 10 brought also
came the bad things like missing
features you couldn't play DVDs or burn
CDs and there were a lot of hardware
drivers missing for external devices
like printers Mac os10 was also
vulnerable to kernel panics which would
crash the system leaving users feeling
like the operating system wasn't stable
another issue was speed you think an
operating system named after the fastest
land mammal would be quite snappy but it
was sluggish at best and painfully slow
at worst this was mainly due to the new
aqua interface that favored form over
function all the criticism of Mac OS 10
ultimately resulted in Apple offering
users of free upgrade to the next
version of the operating system
Mac OS 10.1 Puma this upgrade address to
many prior complaints by including an
apple DVD player application support for
CD burning and support for 200 printers
out of the box
although version 10.1 Puma was a more
efficient operating system than its
predecessor it still received its share
of criticism Pumas system performance
was deemed not enough for many users to
adopt Mac OS 10 as their main operating
system and while it did contain some
important improvements many users
complained that the leap from cheetah to
Puma was not large enough the user
interface had barely changed at all and
significant bugs still existed including
the kernel panics that caused
system-wide crashes on August 23rd 2002
Apple followed up Puma with Mac OS 10.2
Jaguar it retailed for $129 and brought
much-needed performance improvements a
sleeker look and over 150 user interface
enhancements it also introduced a chat
and instant messaging client address
book inkwell for handwriting recognition
and an Apple logo upon startup instead
of the happy Mac icon featured in
previous versions of the operating
system Jaguar was generally well
received by Mac users as a big step
forward in stability speed enhancements
and compatibility but critics of the
operating system were not afraid to
speak out claiming that speed issues
with a user interface still existed and
that everything considered the upper
ring system was still a big step down
from Mac OS 9 Mac OS 10 point 3 panther
was released on october 24 2003 and it
was the biggest update to Mac OS 10 s
user interface panther retailed for $129
and included more features than Jaguar
had the year before including an updated
finder a brushed
metal interface fast user switching a
window manager called expose File Vault
Safari I chat AV which added
videoconferencing features to I chat
improved PDF rendering font book and
better microsoft windows compatibility
panther was an important release for
Apple since it served as a true
first-class desktop operating system
there wasn't much criticism surrounding
this release since it addressed many of
the issues in Jaguar the previous
version of the operating system on April
29th 2005 panther was replaced by Mac OS
10 point 4 tiger and still cost users
$129 to upgrade Tiger contained more
than 200 new features including a fast
search system called spotlight a new
version of the Safari web browser
dashboard and a new unified theme Mac OS
10 Tiger shocked executives at Microsoft
by offering features like fast file
searching and improved graphics
processing features Microsoft has spent
several years struggling to add to
Windows with acceptable performance six
weeks after its release Apple had sold 2
million copies of Mac OS 10 point for
Tiger representing 16% of all Mac OS 10
users Apple claimed that Tiger was the
most successful operating system release
in the company's history at the
Worldwide Developers Conference On June
11 2007 Steve Jobs announced that out of
the 22 million Mac OS 10 users more than
67% were using Mac OS 10 point for Tiger
Apple announced a transition to Intel
processors during tiger's lifetime
making it the first operating system to
work on machines with apple intel
architecture also the original Apple TV
released in March 2007 shipped with a
customized version of Mac OS 10 Tiger
branded as Apple TV OS it replaced the
desktop graphical user interface with an
updated version of front row which was
more appropriate for TVs Tiger was
replaced by Mac OS 10.5 leopard on
October 26 2007 after 30 months of use
making Tiger the longest-running version
of Mac OS 10 leopard also sold for $129
an apple called it the largest update to
Mac OS 10 it brought more than 300 new
features including a redesigned dock
stacks a semi-transparent menubar and an
updated finder that incorporated the
Cover Flow navigation interface
other features included support for
writing 64-bit graphical user interface
applications an automated backup utility
called time machine support for
spotlight searches across multiple
machines and the inclusion of front row
and photobooth which were previously
only included with some Macintosh models
now Apple has a reputation of being very
punctual but leopard release was
actually delayed twice in 2005 Steve
Jobs said that leopard would be released
at the end of 2006 or early 2007 but
when the end of 2006 came the release
date was changed to spring 2007 but when
spring 2007 came Apple said leopards
release would be delayed again until
October 2007 because of the new
development of the iPhone something
unique about Mac OS 10 leopard was its
retail packaging it was significantly
smaller than previous versions of Mac OS
10 and it's sported a lenticular cover
making the Roman numeral 10 appear to be
floating above a purple galaxy macca was
10.6 snow leopard was released on August
28 2009 and it was the first version of
Mac OS 10 to be sold for $29 instead of
the usual $129 because of the low price
initial sales of Snow Leopard were
significantly higher than its
predecessors but rather than delivering
big changes to appearance and
functionality Snow Leopard focused on
under the hood improvements like
enhancing performance efficiency and
stability of the operating system the
most noticeable changes were increased
disk space after installation due to the
lighter operating system a more
responsive finder faster Time Machine
backups more reliable and user-friendly
discs ejects improvements to the preview
application and a faster Safari web
browser the Mac App Store became
available in Snow Leopard with the
10-point 6.6 update and caused a problem
for Mac users when Snow Leopard was
replaced by Mac OS 10.7 lion on July
20th 2011 the issue was Apple didn't
initially sell any physical copies of
Lion instead the operating system was
available exclusively as a download from
the Mac App Store for $29.99 the only
prior version of Mac OS 10 that
supported the Mac App Store was Snow
Leopard which meant any machine running
tiger or leopard would first have to be
upgraded to Snow Leopard
as opposed to upgrading directly to Lion
Apple remedy this situation a couple
weeks later by announcing a USB flash
drive
containing Mac os10 Lyon priced at $69
lion brought developments made in iOS to
Mac OS 10 like an easily navigatable
display of installed applications called
launchpad and more multi-touch gesture
use across the system it also featured
Auto hiding scroll bars Mission Control
full screen applications and system-wide
auto saving Mac OS 10.8 mountain lion
was released on July 25th 2012 following
the release of lie in the previous year
it was the first time Mac OS 10 was
updated after one year instead of the
usual two years
this allowed Mac OS 10 updates to align
with the annual iOS updates mountain
lion featured gatekeeper a malware
blocker integration with Game Center in
iCloud and the Safari web browser was
updated to version 6 as on iOS notes and
reminders became full applications
separate from mail and calendar while
the iChat application was replaced with
a version of iOS ha's messages mountain
lion also added a version of
Notification Center which groups updates
from different applications in one place
integrated links allowed the user to
quickly post content to Twitter and
Facebook integration was also planned
but not available at launch Mac OS 10
mountain lion received positive reviews
with critics praising Notification
Center messages in speed improvements
over lion while criticizing iCloud for
unreliability in Game Center for lack of
games mountain lion sold three million
units in the first four days and became
apple's most popular Mac OS 10 release
at the time the release of Mac OS 10.9
Mavericks on June 11th 2013 was unique
in a couple of ways it was the first
version of Mac OS 10 not named after a
cat instead Apple announced they'd begin
naming new versions of Mac OS 10 after
landmarks in their home state of
California also Mavericks was the first
Mac operating system to be available for
free and all versions after Mavericks
would remain free to download
Mavericks emphasize battery life finder
improvements and other features for
power users like improved external
display support Mavericks also included
deeper iCloud integration reduce
skeuomorphism
improved Notification Center and new
apps like maps into iBooks the next
version of Mac OS 10 called Yosemite was
released on October 16 2014 it featured
a major overhaul of the Mac OS user
interface by replacing skeuomorphism
with flat design and blurred
translucency effects
following the aesthetic introduced in
iOS 7 other design changes included new
icons a dark color scheme and a new
system typeface called Helvetica neue
the doc also became a 2d translucent
rectangle instead of a skeuomorphic
glass shelf many of Yosemite s new
features focused on the theme of
continuity increasing its integration
with other Apple services and platforms
such as iCloud and iOS the handoff
functionality allowed the operating
system to integrate with iOS 8 devices
over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and enabled Mac
users to make an answer phone calls send
and receive text messages activate
personal hotspots or load items being
worked on in a mobile app directly into
Mac OS during Yosemite x' lifetime Apple
discontinued iPhone and aperture and
replaced it with the Photos app this
sparked some outrage among aperture
users who pointed out that photos was
not a suitable replacement for aperture
since it didn't contain any of the
advanced features that pro users needed
Mac OS 10 point 11 El Capitan was
released on September 30th 2015
similar to Snow Leopard Apple said the
release contained refinements to the Mac
experience and improvements to system
performance rather than new features
refinements included public
transportation built into the Maps
application graphical user interface
improvements to the notes application
adopting San Francisco as the system
font for clearer legibility and the
introduction of system integrity
protection the metal API first
introduced in iOS 8 was also included in
El Capitan Mac OS 10 point 12 Sierra was
released to the public on September 20th
2016
new features included Siri optimized
storage auto unlock with the Apple watch
night shift and updates to photos and
messages in iTunes
during Sierra's introduction Apple
announced they'd be changing the name of
Mac OS 10 to Mac OS this change made
sense since it mirrored Apple's other
operating systems watch OS TV OS and iOS
Mac OS 10 point 13 hi Sierra was
released on September 25th 2017 and
focused on performance improvements in
technical updates rather than new
features notable changes included the
Apple file system metal - support for
HEV C and hei F and updates to photos
mail Safari notes and Siri so that's it
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