History of macOS

Apple is known for their well designed hardware, but even more recognizable are the advanced operating systems they create for their hardware. Today, they ship four different operating systems for four different lines of products: tvOS for Apple TV, watchOS for Apple Watch, iOS for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, and macOS for the Mac. They all provide an excellent user experience and optimization for the hardware they run on, but one OS stands out from the rest, and that is macOS. Because it is the oldest of the four operating systems, as it’s been around for 18 years. So let’s go back to January 1997, before macOS was even publicly available.

[unlimitedpancakes]

"Easily the most pro-focused release of macOS in a while."

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[Interestingworld]

*_Can you do history of RETINA technology :-)_*

[rungxanh]

Very well-prepared video. And got such a nostalgic feeling going through macOS versions

[RuohongZhao]

I got my first Mac in 2011, it was so elegant and thin MacBook Air, running on Snow leopard. I miss that time.

[isaacpond]

I still have a snow leaped install disk that came with my 2007 iMac

[hammerrox]

The video is great but I did want to point out that APFS (Apple Filing System) was not released with MacOS Sierra, it was released in 2017 with MacOS High Sierra. Just thought I would point that out :)

[freetobe]

Mavericks was the best. Like Snow Leopard being the optimization of Leopard, Mavericks was the culmination of improvements since Lion. I stuck to it for as long as web browsers supported it. I did try newer releases over the years but they just didn't feel or performed as well, to be fair, my Mac is a 2011 model and has been showing its age for a while.

[ranbirbhatia]

There are way more big cats they could think... Maybe they should've named mavericks cougar as the last departure from the skeumorphic design of macOS

[QuantaSolace]

I absolutely hated early versions of OS X. It was slow and clunky. Leopard and Snow Leopard were great though. Snow Leopard has to be my favorite version of OS X. I still have it on my 2008 white MacBook and it still runs like a dream.

[benji_]

We've finally moved on to macOS 11!

[elite_bohy]

As for iOS and MacOS connection - Steve Jobs in 2007 said, that iPhone runs on OS X, that does not mean those systems are exactly the same, but their relationship is the same as between Windows 10 and now discontinued Windows 10 Mobile, so not all features of MacOS will be available on iOS and vice versa, but they have a lot in common as iOS is based on source code of OS X (now MacOS).

[sylatech]

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is my favorite OS except Mojave.

[BeautifullyBalanced-MAIN]

Who missed when Apple Explained said “Jagwire”?

[astradiayt]

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[_dave]

i still have system 5, 6, 7, a/ux, 8, 9 and of course x install discs. had prodos 2 and 3 (with dos 2, 3 and 3.3) until 3 years ago along with a fully functional, much modified, apple iie enhanced and a q 660 a/v built into a monster av machine (sonnet quad-doubler 100 mhz 68040 and the 55 mhz at&t 3210 dsp); incredible for it’s time...

[theharbingerofconflation]

10.4.4 (Tiger) to 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) contained a Framework called Rosetta that allowed people to run ppc Apps.

[uthmanbaksh]

I can't wait to get an updated video the new MacOS Big Sur!

[SWLinPHX]

Why did he go straight from MacOS 8 to MacOS X? MacOS 9 was huge and stuck a long time, including being the "Classic" mode that ran on MacOS X.

[SWLinPHX]

So the only big cat they DIDN'T use was "cougar" (and maybe "bobcat").

[itseasy_okiecokie]

Hello Apple explained, congratz for 100k subs!