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Myth, huh? 2001 10.1 Puma: First OS X to ship by default 2002 10.2 Jaguar: GPU compositing, Mail.app / Address Book, MP4 2003 10.3

Myth, huh? 2001 10.1 Puma: First OS X to ship by default 2002 10.2 Jaguar: GPU compositing, Mail.app / Address Book, MP4 2003 10.3 Panther: Safari, iChat AV, Journaled FS, Apple's PDF engine 2005 10.4 Tiger: Spotlight, Dashboard, Automator, Core Image/Video 2007 10.5 Leopard: Core Animation, Time Machine, Boot Camp, 64 bit, intel 2009 10.6 Snow Leopard: App Store, XCode overhaul with LLVM, major dev tool updates ~~~ wind leaves sails ~~~ 2011 10.7 Lion: Launchpad, auto-save documents, multi-touch 2012 10.8 Mountain Lion: Game Center, Notification Center 2013 10.9 Mavericks: iBooks, Apple Maps, iCloud integration 2014 10.10 Yosemite: Skeuomorphism -> Fisher Price, Continuity & handoff 2015 10.11 El Capitan: San Francisco font, Metal API 2016 10.12 Sierra: Siri, Auto Unlock, Night Shift ~~~ wind returns? ~~~ 2017 10.13 High Sierra: HEVC, APFS, VR On the upside, High Sierra was a release that lives up to the old standard. Hopefully that's a trend that will continue.

classichasclass 8y ago
What makes you say that High Sierra lives up to the standard? Because it had more "under the hood" stuff? I think the Snow Leopard meme is also about perceived quality, not just where the updates occurred. Also, apropos of nothing, when I was in my larval state and we walked uphill both ways to school, High Sierra was a file system, not an OS. My System 7.1 Mac has an extension to read them.
- jjoonathan 8y ago
  Through 10.6, people had good reasons to suffer through buggy upgrades. Post 10.6, they didn't. Apple delivered bugs at the same rate but noticeably fewer heavy-hitting, impactful, and technically excellent features. The attractiveness of upgrading plummited, leading to "Why not just stick with Snow Leopard?"
mitchty 8y ago
Can you explain how any of this pertains to a stability problem? Cherry picking features added to each release is... a weird argument in this regard.
- jjoonathan 8y ago
  It doesn't. Apple releases were never bugproof. That part of the myth is counterfactual. The part that isn't counterfactual is that upgrades became much less attractive after the A team left for the iphone.

classichasclass 8y ago

What makes you say that High Sierra lives up to the standard? Because it had more "under the hood" stuff? I think the Snow Leopard meme is also about perceived quality, not just where the updates occurred. Also, apropos of nothing, when I was in my larval state and we walked uphill both ways to school, High Sierra was a file system, not an OS. My System 7.1 Mac has an extension to read them.

jjoonathan 8y ago
Through 10.6, people had good reasons to suffer through buggy upgrades. Post 10.6, they didn't. Apple delivered bugs at the same rate but noticeably fewer heavy-hitting, impactful, and technically excellent features. The attractiveness of upgrading plummited, leading to "Why not just stick with Snow Leopard?"

mitchty 8y ago

Can you explain how any of this pertains to a stability problem? Cherry picking features added to each release is... a weird argument in this regard.

jjoonathan 8y ago
It doesn't. Apple releases were never bugproof. That part of the myth is counterfactual. The part that isn't counterfactual is that upgrades became much less attractive after the A team left for the iphone.