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How is Mac OS X two decades old? It feels like just yesterday I started my first real job, developing websites on a computer running Mac OS 10.1.
by jon-wood 6y ago
How is Mac OS X two decades old? It feels like just yesterday I started my first real job, developing websites on a computer running Mac OS 10.1.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoIt’s because the fundamentals of the macOS user-experience haven’t changed much since OS X’s introduction of the dock and their fancy GUI effects: the “genie” window minimise is still there! And generally speaking, macOS’s aesthetics have been consistent too - we only saw Dark Mode added very recently, for example. Apple has also been very conservative about adding major user-visible features to macOS lately - but that’s more attributable to them devoting their resources to iOS instead of macOS. Windows, on the other hand, updates its appearance (and adds (or removes) gimmicks) with each major release - even completely upending the UX fundamentals in Windows 8. Also consider that we used to have to reformat/reinstall computer OSs more regularly in the past - and having to do reinstalls makes you think about your computer UX as you spend time changing the settings from the defaults to your custom preferences. I remember having to reinstall Windows 95-98 every 6-9 months, and Windows XP once every year or so. Since Windows 7 things have been a lot more stable - my current Windows 10 install would have been ~4 years old now if it weren’t for me losing all my documents in the October 2018 update... (all I got was $400 from MS, ugh)