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Unlike some of Ars' other epic history articles, this one didn't really get me too excited. It seemed pretty screenshot-heavy, thin on technical details (especi
by geerlingguy 12y ago
Unlike some of Ars' other epic history articles, this one didn't really get me too excited. It seemed pretty screenshot-heavy, thin on technical details (especially the 'why's behind version-to-version changes, the 'who's behind the original and ongoing development, etc.).
Most of the information is nice to know, but the story really remains to be told. This article is far from a Sircusa Mac OS X review (which I usually spend at least an hour reading every year).
In the end, the article reminded me more of a journal of someone's spelunking adventure rather than a personal story with an interesting slant, so I felt less inclined to power through the last few pages.
- bobbles 12y agoI'm really glad that this article has been put together just to at least have some idea of the way things were. If they are planning to keep this updated as android evolves I really hope they go back to each of these previous versions and give a bit more context around the industry at the time. There are certain comments in there generalizing around 'people weren't ready for xxx' but they obviously were as other OSs had the functionality at the time.