Wow, I totally missed that version number in the About box. Very interesting! I guess 10.16 will be the last version of "OS X" as we knew it (even though it was already called macOS). The end of an era, indeed.
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#12Intel version is still 10.16, new ARM version is 11.0.
My Intel MacBook Pro says 11.0 Beta (20A4299v). So, I don't think it's 10.6 for Intel.
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#13Snow Leopard (version 10.6) was the peak of OS X. Everything since then has been downhill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard
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#14I mainly program web apps on my MacBook Pro 2017, and upgrading to Big Sur hasn't changed almost any of this for me. I can still install brew and do my work. The UI is a rough around the edges in some areas, but I actually don't really mind, and some of the new features are pretty nice.
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#15That family tree is wrong, right?
1. Unix was first, then BSD came from Unix... then Mach was built quite a bit later.
2. NextStep was then built by jobs after he was let go from apple by Mr. Soda man.
3. Jobs comes back to apple, brings NextStep- reads the tea leaves with OS7-9 and sets up NextStep as the successor with OSX. Apple branded NextStep becomes OSX.
Is my chronology correct?
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#16OS X (the name) is gone for a while, it was replaced by macOS. The numbering change now is inconsequential.
Most people probably don't even refer to the macOS versions by number but by codename.
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#17> what the company perceives as a weakness: the paucity of apps in the Mac App Store.
I think that the issue with the Mac App store, is that it imposes restrictions on a once-free-for-all development environment. I know many app developers that have abandoned it, after giving it a damn fair shake.
Mac developers just got used to being able to wander all over the house, poking their noses into whatever they liked.
iOS, on the other hand, started off restricted. iOS developers have never known the freedom that Mac developers have had.
To be completely fair to Apple, the iOS model is the one that needs to be followed, if security and privacy are the goals, and I think that a big part of MacOS 11 will be to add restrictions.
I suspect that non-App Store apps for the Mac may be seeing the twilight.
I am not looking forward to the restrictions on the Mac, but it has been quite some time since I've stepped outside the walled garden, myself.
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#18I know this is about the coming MacOS 11.0, but Catalina was the end of OS X for me, and the end of Macs in general for me. I will not be migrating from Mojave to Catalina, and will use my current generation of Macs until they are obsolete, while finally making the transition to Linux. Mac and I had a good run, but I'm clearly no longer the target demographic and their corporate goals aren't aligned with mine as a cu…
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#19I know that Java is not hip nowadays (was it ever?) but at some point Jobs bragged Macs are the best Java workstations. Clearly Apple not only does not care about Java but hates it. macOS Catalina is also pretty scary. So, I am enthusiastically waiting on getting a new laptop with the Ryzen 4800 CPU to run Linux on. I do some Java tooling projects and I will just use the existing Mac gear to support them, for a while…
That was in the OS X early days, as Apple wasn't sure developers would buy into Objective-C, they jumped into Java as alternative, having their own VM and Cocoa bindings.
As it became clear that they would gladly use Objective-C, they killed the other horse.
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#20OS X was a marketing name and was dead for a while now.
Besides the CPU arch change and a slightly refined UI it is pretty much the same.