Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)

Basically, you get a corporate drama, a human drama and a tech drama all wrapped up in one series of presentations: Jobs' return (as a consultant) 1997, promoting technologies from NeXT. Watch basically everyone asleep at the wheel except Jobs, the man with a plan. [link] WWDC Q&A - 'the art of saying no' [link] Jobs' hostile takeover in July by doing a (probably illegal?) stock dump [link] Announcing a Deal with Microsoft as de facto CEO in August, booed by the crowd [link] Internal meeting in September 1997 [link] iMac introduction 1998 - Apple is back [link] Macworld 1998 - Apple is essentially saved as a company [link] OSX Strategy reveal (if you only have time for one presentation, watch this one) [link] 1999 - OSX Server launch [link] 2000 - OSX launch ▶ this video

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I copy from a comment of mine from last week. In case you wanna procrastinate on a fascinating story about how Apple transitioned to NextStep's stack without completely annihilating their already weak developer base, here's a few links: You get a corporate drama, a human drama and a tech drama all wrapped up in one series of presentations: Jobs' return (as a consultant) 1997, promoting technologies from NeXT. Watch basically everyone asleep at the wheel except Jobs, the man with a plan. [link] WWDC Q&A - 'the art of saying no' [link] Jobs' hostile takeover in July by doing a (probably illegal?) stock dump [link] Announcing a Deal with Microsoft as de facto CEO in August, booed by the crowd [link] Internal meeting in September 1997 [link] iMac introduction 1998 - Apple is back [link] Macworld 1998 - Apple is essentially saved as a company [link] OSX Strategy reveal [link] 1999 - OSX Server launch [link] 2000 - OSX launch ▶ this video

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"We call that new user interface Aqua, because it's liquid. One of the design goals was that when you saw it, you wanted to lick it!" 06:45 ▶ this video

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> But yeah. Man, the desktop was so beautiful and refreshing. ". . . that new user interface builds on Apple's Legacy and carries it into the next century and we call that new user interface Aqua because it's liquid. One of the design goals was when you saw it you wanted to lick it . . ." Steve Job, Macworld San Francisco 2000: ▶ this video

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ignoring the "thoughts on flash"[0] letter, the apple <=> adobe relationship goes back to at least the apple LaserWriter[1], so that would definitely make sense the Quartz compositor itself has "use[d] pdf internally"[2][3] ever since the initial launch of Mac OS X > By the time OS X came out, these were less the kind of features that "the next great personal computer operating system" should have, and more the kind that they all had. What was new included how Quartz, the engine for OS X's "killer graphics," was based on PDF. > "What does that mean?" asked Jobs. "You know when you go to the web and you see PDF documents? Well, that technology is now at the core of Mac OS X's graphics. So you can image PDFs instantly. So now all applications get this for free." > It's how, to this day, every Mac app can produce a PDF document without needing a third-party app.[4] [0]: [link] [1]: [link] [2]: ▶ this video / [link] [3]: [link] [4]: [link] [link]

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Here's Steve introducing Mac OS X for the first time, describing running applications against Classic, Carbon, and Cocoa: ▶ this video It certainly seems clear to me (and seemed just as clear to me at the time) that Cocoa was being presented as the API of the future. Sure, Carbon is on the same slide, but so is Classic!

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