BeOS. The BeOS filesystem had some nifty metadata features and the company was keen to show those off. Plus, I suspect they had to get creative to seed the OS w

BeOS. The BeOS filesystem had some nifty metadata features and the company was keen to show those off. Plus, I suspect they had to get creative to seed the OS with apps back in the day. As a result, many apps ended up feeling like a pretty thin veneer around a file explorer. My memory is a little foggy, but the music player and the email app come to mind. The opposite model was the iTunes model: a monolithic app that reproduced a bunch of functionality of the file system, but ultimately nerfed the power. I’m otherwise not too crazy nostalgic about BeOS (NeXT was the better OS in many ways). But man, some things were really great with that system.