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OS X 10.7 (Lion) was the first post-iPhone version of MacOS, released in late 2011. It was a bumpy release and it's not remembered fondly, but it introduced a
by thought_alarm 4y ago
OS X 10.7 (Lion) was the first post-iPhone version of MacOS, released in late 2011.
It was a bumpy release and it's not remembered fondly, but it introduced a number of fundamental features that modern iOS/Mac users depend on, like iCloud.
The previous version from 2009, OS X 10.6, was essentially a maintenance/refinement release with few new features while the rest of Apple was heavily focused on launching the iPhone and the App Store. Many people consider 10.6 to be the strongest OS X release, but it feels positively retro by today's standards.
- gymbeaux 4y ago10.6 Snow Leopard was the Windows XP of Apple. 10.8 Mountain Lion was also solid.
- akerl_ 4y agoIIRC, this was relatively on purpose, with $modifier $name basically meaning "we made a backend change to the release but nothing else". Snow Leopard was a big shift towards 64-bit for core apps, and Grand Central Dispatch for multi-processing,