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In the mid to late nineties, before Jobs returned, Apple stuck to polishing OS9 Correction: Apple didn't release OS 9 -- or even OS 8 -- until after Jobs retur
by DavidSJ 13y ago
In the mid to late nineties, before Jobs returned, Apple stuck to polishing OS9
Correction: Apple didn't release OS 9 -- or even OS 8 -- until after Jobs returned.
Perhaps you mean System 7? Actually, Apple barely made any progress on System 7 because nearly all their OS engineers were working on the ill-fated Copland.
This era also brought such blunders as the puck mouse, but towards the end Apple got a bit of a lift from the candy colored iMac
The hockey puck mouse was also a Jobsism -- part of the iMac release.
- zeckalpha 13y agoI heard someone the other day saying that now that Jobs is gone they're bringing back the hokey colors to the product lines. I told them that it wasn't until Jobs was back that the colors were introduced and they didn't believe me.
- beloch 13y agoYou're right. OS8 and 9 were basically lipstick on the System 7 pig. I worked on a helpdesk part-time in University and had to support OS8 and OS9. Horrible, horrible operating systems. To make matters even more annoying, Apple hardware had a funny habit of hiding the power switch on the back of the box at the time too, so it was always fun explaining to professors how to reboot their hard-locked machines over the phone. The puck-mice were indeed post-Jobs, as were the iMacs. Despite those terrible mice, the iMacs were a big hit with people who liked pretty colors and didn't actually want to use their computers much. I suppose Jobs needed time to get into the swing of things. It wasn't until the iPod that Apple (and Jobs) really shifted into overdrive.