History of macOS

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Today, Apple has the largest and most diverse product ecosystem in history. From smartphones to tablets to smart watches, we’ve never seen Apple compete in so many industries simultaneously. But with all these new products, it’s easy to forget that Apple started as a computer company. And their Macintosh operating system, also known as macOS, has been around since 1984. So in this video, we’re going to explore the history of macOS, and find out how it’s grown and evolved over the past four decades.

[@ur_other_mother]

I’m a Windows user, but the fact that Apple users were resilient enough to start a grassroots movement to keep the company alive by buying the technologies is beyond admirable.

[@clashwithmoi8926]

at that point of time mac ox was a very good product and usually was a little ahead of it's time. I'm pretty sure it was much more home pc user friendly than windows.

[@confuseddeku3478]

And the fact some pirates up and REFUSED to redistribute it is actually so admirable.

[@AvidSonicFan]

@@confuseddeku3478 Mac OS 8 - Even Pirates have Standards.

[@ali99_82]

​@@confuseddeku3478why so

[@JohnTimeYT]

I'm a Chromebook user

[@amigdalos]

I missed that shining buttons , animations and glossy icons 😔. Snow Leopard up to Mountain Lion were the best OS

[@oteletampis7513]

Γιώργος Αμύγδαλος Γιώργος Φυστικής Γιώργος Φουντούκης Γιώργος Καρύδης

[@Ana.Forlin]

Mavericks also has that interface.

[@tarfact]

nothing to want to lick anymore :(

[@woilah794]

Lmao my mom still has mountain lion on her macbook air 2013 because it doesnt have any space xD

[@ARBUZIK.dudkin]

Okay grandpa

[@CybernerdShua]

As someone who has only ever used windows and Linux, this is a huge learning opportunity.

[@megabyte112]

ahh, a fellow linux user!

[@CybernerdShua]

@@megabyte112 I see you are a person of culture as well.

[@Skyler2.0_Youtube]

Im A Windows User

[@tcp124]

I use mac and windows.... Cool person124 was the imposter

[@elgeorge437]

I use all three... including chromeOS if you consider that (because of school) 🤣 but yeah.. I personally like the simplicity and privacy of MacOS, the privacy of Linux and the fact that it’s so niche and has a nice community, and I like windows for straightfoward more complex operations and gaming

[@MrCooper83]

The oldest MacOS I have ever used was Tiger on a G3 iMac. Great video, I really liked the Snow Leopard. Its been 11 years... i absolutely love Apple’s OS.

[@jadinhtvt6870]

What about lion

[@MrCooper83]

@@jadinhtvt6870 Lion came out after Snow Leopard. Im not sure but i think that was in 2011. The first OS version which was only available from the AppStore. I don't remember too much as it was a long time ago. I think the auto save was introduced in Lion, but I'm not entirely sure. That was a great feature. I think Craig Federighi had some `windows` jokes with his shaking hand on the magic mouse. I think that was the WWDS in 2011 when he was super nervous. :)

[@sneakyfox4651]

@@jadinhtvt6870 I had Lion running on the first Mac Pro, and that was an unhappy mariage. Very, very unstable, but I can't tell if it was the OS or the chimera hardware (both 32 and 64 bit parts). Luckily, it was just used as a guest PC for my summer guests and for watching DVDs on a larger screen than my 13'' MBP. (I've never had a TV). As a courtesy I installed Google Chrome for one of the guest who was used to that interface. Took the whole machine down so hard I had to re-format the harddrive and re-install Lion after trying every trick in the book to recover. No chance.

[@realjameskii]

the oldest i think i used was el capitan, i still am on el capitan

[@MattExzy]

I feel so decrepit.. the oldest Mac OS I used was System 7, for donkey's years as a kid. Boy-howdy, was 8 ever good after that ordeal.

[@user-vq4py7zx9v]

macOS is one of the most refined OSs out there, it feels really nice to use and it was a revolutionary product back in the day

[@jjb0894]

I can never go back to Windows after using macOS.

[@micosstar]

it's intuitive.

[@josiahstearns9615]

I love these history videos where you talk through everything and add interesting facts. The other History videos with the animations are, no doubt, easier to compile. But I enjoy learning about the “behind the scenes” events often more than just the list of specs.

[@JonathonV]

Nerd tip: If you want to sound really legit, pronounce “SCSI” like “scuzzy”.

[@davesauro2491]

Also its probably a good idea to produce ars TECHNICA and John SiracusA properly.

[@TexasCat99]

After 30+ years... never ever heard it as S C S I... LOL!! yeah, that was bad.

[@pscraft1337]

Also gooey instead of G.U.I

[@neocloudy88]

@@pscraft1337 it’s GUI not gooey I’m fucking cringing right now :(

[@PerfectPilot]

@@AnimationByDylan lol

[@LeeStewart]

In 1994, I was brought into a room full of the original Macintoshes. I sat down and without any instruction, I began using it and the applications. Prior to this, I'd never used a mouse before, but it was all so intuitive. Eighteen years later, I switched from Windows to Mac (Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion) and it felt so familiar and intuitive. It's amazing how far macOS has evolved since 2012 and how relevant it is still is, despite the emergence of mobile devices like iPhone and iPad. So far, they've come very close to the PC experience, but have just fallen short.

[@uraworld6247]

is not supposed to be the same

[@flappospammo]

I hate iOS and love macOS

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="379">6:19</a> MacOS 9 also added large-file APIs, allowing you to create and access files larger than 4GB or so.

[@muticere]

I jumped on the Mac bandwagon back in 2003 and am still on it. My first Mac was an iBook, it was a nice little machine until the display died after about a year. Undeterred, I got one of the first aluminum unibody MacBooks in 2008. Really enjoyed that computer. Wish I still had it, made the mistake of selling it to buy a gaming rig. Should have held onto it, it probably would still work like a champ.

[@flavoursofsound]

This was a massive nostalgia trip for me. Technically been using Macs since System 6.0 on my parents’ Macintosh SE. However I bought my first Mac in 2005, an iBook G4 running OS X Tiger. I bought it for £600, though had I bought Apple stock instead, it would be worth £53,734 today.

[@sibaweihiquality1917]

I have a MacBook Pro 13" and I love it. Im obsessed

[@elgeorge437]

I just got a new MacBook Air after selling my 2018 MacBook Pro since I barely used the pro and I just needed something cheaper but with macOS

[@thechannelforyouandme9376]

ITS A DOWGRADE. THEY REMOVED ALL THE PORTS AND MAKE IT WAKER

[@fatlindtv2098]

SHITbook pro

[@Bananaman-hk6qw]

@@fatlindtv2098 lol

[@AlejandroKar98k]

i just got my fist macbook pro and...i hate it, i dont know what the hell i was thinking when i get this piece of trash

[@PromotingTheBeat]

Aqua

[@notsniped]

macOS 13 in 2021: Were introducing themes in iOS, iPadOS and macOS. Themes included are the normal theme and the Aqua theme.

[@dieguito0512]

@@notsniped *hah i wish*

[@TheMetalMag]

As an apple fan I can only thank you for this great video bringing some more details , I started to use mac in 95 before I never used a computer and felt in love will never change!

[@thatnishcray]

Not to be 'that guy', but I'm sure you'd appreciate the tip: it's actually pronounced 'ars' not A-R-S : Ars Technica means 'the art of technology' in Latin.

[@NDakota79]

haha arse!

[@grewdpastor]

@@NDakota79 Then you pronounce it the wrong way. It is with a sharp, somewhat long S.

[@Stormy2142]

came here to say this

[@ireadysucks3026]

@@grewdpastor wait is it like your saying the letter r but with a s at the end

[@Lollolololpll]

Glad you brought this up! I thought I was going crazy by thinking I was saying it wrong :)

[@nwh5027]

Y’all are saying first, but it’s much harder to be last 😆

[@kiran.-]

What

[@nyandwielijah]

Yep you can never be last to comment

[@alejandroooow]

@@nyandwielijah you can tho

[@nyandwielijah]

@@alejandroooow well maybe Until a video gets another comment

[@redtro_1]

overused comment lol

[@craigjensen6853]

Apple user here, since 1987. I _JUST_ now noticed the side profile of the original Mac (or Mac Plus) at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="188">3:08</a> and how the angle and bottom notch near the keyboard matches the "nose" profile in the MacOS logo. I bet most people have seen that for decades. I'm an idiot. So really the MacOS logo is like 2 original Macs with one turned 90 degrees in front of the other one. Absolutely brilliant. They are just missing the eye but they could have put the speakers in the side case for them. Missed opportunity.

[@VexifyGaming]

Who else thinks Greg is a legend

[@danbh84]

He’s very good

[@lorinye5674]

ME!

[@donteven4673]

ye hes the best in explaining apple. I repeat. THE BEST

[@AdityaS256]

@@donteven4673 Yes

[@raagamparmar179]

Mee!

[@stevenvallarsa1765]

What an incredible stroll down memory lane. I've been a Mac user since 1992 with the Mac Plus running System 6 in the graphics lab of Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology in Sudbury, Ontario, where I was taking graphic design. I just purchased a new MacBook Pro 14" running Sonoma, my first non-refurbished Mac since the purchase of a new PowerMac G4 back in 2000. It's nice to see where features were introduced and came of age over the past 30+ years.

[@aytviewer2421]

Wow. What a trip down memory lane for me. Though, I really stopped using Mac OS X full time after Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) was released. And you are correct --Snow Leopard was an AWESOME OS. It was rock stable, fast, and the workspaces were a highly useable grid (rather than the linear layout introduced with Lion). I was super productive in Snow Leopard. But after Lion eliminated or changed the way I was used to working, I went ahead and ended up loading Windows 7 on my primary Mac at the time and got back to work. These days, I find Ubuntu Mate to be a great coding working environment, but still live in Windows 10 about a 25-30% of the time as well. I used Macs from the late 1980s till Lion drove me away. Thanks for the nostalgia!

[@MarcosRavena]

Tiger was the first macOS I used. As a Windows user at that time, it was a little strange how the applications windows worked, the shortcuts and the keys at all. But, guess who... Today I can't imagine a single Day working with Windows again. Because of the UI, stability etc. It took just one or two weeks to get used to work with macOS. Thanks Apple. Thanks for this lesson Greg!

[@AH-yg2dj]

After watching the thumbnail, all I can say is finder has become happier over the years

[@shai.p]

We are happy for our boy Finder for finding happiness :)

[@ajrhodes3262]

Did you know that Safari was based on a Linux based browser called Konqeror?? I read it in a book by a former Apple software developer. It was actually really interesting because macOS is based on BSD, an old Unix based system. Linux is also based on the philosophy of Unix. I think that is really cool. Well, thanks for an amazing video!!

[@cristianpopescu7270]

This is true because are many similarities between macos and linux distributions

[@nopebro2471]

Konqueror is still maintained as part of KDE

[@ajrhodes3262]

@@nopebro2471 it’s not as supported by most websites these days due to everyone preferring chrome

[@donteven4673]

It's amazing to see how far MacOS went. But a request Greg, a chatter about iphone 12 pleaseeeeeeeeee

[@rspaced]

Oldest MacOS I used was OSX Mavericks. I have a strong nostalgia for it as my mum’s 2014 MacBook Air ran it before I inherited it and installed Catalina. The skeuomorphism just hits me hard

[@uglybozo]

I still can't understand how he does not have a million subscribers. This is content that I enjoy watching. Every video I see on this channel is entertaining and exciting. Great job!

[@pyeltd.5457]

Because he gets everything wrong and is lazy and shit just getting veiws and revenue for information you can look up on Wikipedia and the MacTracker App. Why watch a guys incorrect video. Look at the wrong years under the logos in the thumbnails.

[@Alex-cn1xt]

@@pyeltd.5457 And You Have Bad Grammar. You Are Lazy To Type LOL!

[@akiramsc]

He does now

[@uglybozo]

really?!@@akiramsc

[@akiramsc]

just letting you know@@uglybozo

[@VELI-Productions]

Man, Leopard is still my favorite version of MacOS to this day.

[@deletingmychannel]

The first Mac I purchased in 2009 had snow leopard and I can agree it was the best, most stable OS that Apple ever released. I’d say my least favorite was Mavericks.

[@flappospammo]

Yes snow leopard was awesome

[@brentsmithline3423]

Worked for a regional Internet service provider in the early days of the public Internet. My fellow system administrator was a published author in FreeBSD. Since the birth of WWW websites was created on a NeXT host system. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple, and in effect took NeXT OS updated it to run on Mac's. At the core of what we now know as macOS is a FreeBSD UNIX base. Apple has submitted OS X for certification (and received it,) every version since 10.5. So with what is now macOS being FreeBSD UNIX based we purchased the education all white version of the G3 all in one for the office so we could support our customers who purchased Apple Mac's. I myself who had the original 1984 Macintosh moved "Back to Mac" for personal use with the introduction of the Intel iMac. In fact until they stopped supporting 32 bit Linux for my old iMac I used it up until last year. Now with the new M series Apple iMac's I will soon be moving from Intel to Apple M series chip set. Thing is it looks like it will have Linux support down the road.

[@gamerzer0004]

Another Amazing Video by AE... Love all your videos... Thanks Greg!!!

[@DavidMorseMusic]

I'll never forget using my parents G4 iMac. Those older OS versions seemed so futuristic back then.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Also 1994 saw the introduction of the first Power Macs, with a special (interim) System version 7.1.2 to support them.

[@worldconquestonyoutube]

Apple: launches new operating system Greg/apple explained: Straight after the launch makes new video about Mac OS

[@nachovyofficial]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="772">12:52</a> *Documents* Folder -- KB Last modified Mar 24, 2010 Exactly 2 years before I was born!

[@nachovyofficial]

@@crillexz7436 OK I’ve said too much bye

[@crillexz7436]

@@nachovyofficial oof

[@dieguito0512]

so, you're 9 years old. you should be on youtube kids

[@omerarfan]

@@dieguito0512 yt kids is a piece of junk why use it

[@omerarfan]

@@dieguito0512 its only for 4-6 years olds

[@claudiatje85]

I haven't used Macs since 2008-2009, but those Tiger screenshots made me nostalgic and press the middle button to load my widgets. Good times.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="230">3:50</a> You forgot to mention System 4.2/Finder 6.0, which was the first version to support MultiFinder. This let you use all the extra RAM to run multiple applications at once. This may have derived from a project Andy Hertzfeld had been working on in his own time, called “Servant”. This was an advance on his earlier (and very popular) “Switcher” offering in letting windows from different apps coexisting on the same screen, instead of just one app at a time taking over the whole screen.

[@heidirichter]

There was a lot that wasn't mentioned from the pre OS X days that I feel should have been included in a video titled "History of macOS"

[@XMattingly]

Expose absolutely revolutionized window management and multitasking. I previously spent years double-clicking window shade over and over and over and over and over, hundreds of times every day... after Expose, my productivity _took off like a rocket._ 🚀

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="242">4:02</a> Those are disks for System 7.5, from about a decade later.

[@aytviewer2421]

Yep. Plus It's funny that 7.5 was shown because that was an awefully buggy version of Mac OS. Luckily, they fixed it all up in 7.6.1 and that was solid until Mac OS 8 shipped.

[@PissBoys]

The first true graphical OS I ever used was System 2, as a child, and my parents and grandparents were dedicated Macintosh users due to using them at work, so I grew up with Mac operating systems until I moved over to Windows around System 6. This was a treat for me to watch, to see all the old ecosystems that I cut my teeth on. Makes me want to buy an old Mac just for the experience of using it again.

[@origamimambo545]

Wow, this OS history was like a history of my professional computing life.

[@mattreedah]

I started with system 7.5 on a Performa 550. My next Mac was my favorite computer running my favorite OS - a 12” G4 PowerBook running 10.4 Tiger. I no longer have it, but I still have a working iMac G4 running it!

[@schirombaseball95]

What's the background music?

[@Nathan15038]

Man, just recently I turned on or booted up three of my old Macs, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and iMac. All three of these I bought back in 2010 and when I first turned them on, they were running the highest high Sierra except for one. One of them ran Mac OS X lion, which was a throwback. But I eventually updated that one to High Sierra and my MacBook Pro to macOS Catalina with a patcher. But surprisingly, they still run and have a use the iMac I use as a TV or to stream KZbin the MacBook Pro. I run it as a security camera computer and the MacBook Air. I have a sitting around but every once in a while I would use it. I never traded in any Macs because they were not worth it. I also believe that the fact that I upgraded all of those Mac to the eye aspect when I bought it from 2010 that it still runs almost 15 years later. But I do currently own a Mac mini from 2018 and a MacBook Air 2020, which I specked out too. But just recently I’ve actually bought a new 2023 MacBook Pro 16in with a M3 max 40 Core GPU chip. I also loaded it with 128 GB of RAM and a 4TB of storage. This came out to like six grand, but Apple financing is helping me and I personally love it and think this will also last me another 15 years. This is probably overkill for even 10 years or 15 years, but I wanted to match the specs of my PC.😅

[@bigmancozmo]

Me: *i can't believe i used to use MacOS Mavericks until like October when i figured out how to update it.*

[@chocoloco9985]

Commercial break at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="394">6:34</a>, regular programming resumes at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="450">7:30</a>

[@aukiio]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="393">6:33</a> Holy shit that transition to the sponsor really makes me want to try out Squarespace lol Good one Greg 😂😂

[@144wychwood]

MAN! those were the days. I remember lining up outside local Mac dealer to buy OS8 and OS9. I also got OS X Public Beta software. Yes, early versions of OSX were brutally slow. Wish I held on to them just for keepsakes. Always loved simple 2d GUI of System 7. It would be could cool if they brought back some looks in future version of MacOS.

[@AdmiralBison]

Did you recognize the "Hello" font from last weeks Apple Spring loaded event? It was exactly the same style as the first Mac machine "hello" Nearing Macs 40th anniversary, you never know, some aesthetics, wallpapers and theme throwbacks could happen to celebrate.

[@PumperWolf]

I waited so long for this video, thanks

[@ArduinoTurkBatu]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="234">3:54</a> Wow we are have a colored Macintosh!! Cool for old times!!!

[@vidulseneviratne2514]

i have learnt so much from this channel that i should become the ihistorian lol

[@muticere]

Me before watching this: Snow Leopard was my favorite, idk why. It was a while ago, I just remember it being something special. Me after finishing: oh okay lol everyone loved that one, it really was great. I do remember going to the Apple Store and buying a copy of Snow Leopard and that being the last time I had to buy an upgrade. Sure wish Windows would just let you have their upgrades...

[@Willy48420]

I had my grandparents old iMac for a while. Good ol ‘floating screen’ iMac

[@vctrsigma]

Still considered a pretty good day-to-day design for a desktop with internal expandability being the main limitation.

[@Willy48420]

@@vctrsigma too bad I had it way after it’s time. My cousin and I tried to update software to a recent-ish version of OS X but it had such a limited RAM we couldn’t make the jump of OS

[@aytviewer2421]

@@Willy48420 Are you talking about the iMac with a white dome base and the floating attached LCD screen? That thing had a G4 processor in it. You could load it up with quite a bit of RAM (for the time). I think the last version of Mac OS X you could have installed on that was 10.4 (Tiger). After that version, you needed a Mac with an Intel Core processor.

[@Willy48420]

@@aytviewer2421 yup that’s the one. We were trying to run snow leopard I think for iPod nano 4&5 so we needed a more current version of iTunes

[@juanmico4085]

Boy what a trip from my youth to today.... I joined in the party in the mid 90's with a Performa 6200 running System 7.5 (I think). Thanks for this!

[@notafanboy250]

You and me both. First computer I ever had was a Performa 6290CD with System 7.5.1 just like you.

[@grosado8906]

I love this channel sooo much great quality vids.

[@hadilaptop]

Brings back lost of nostalgic memories. The video is completely right about the first version of Mac OS being slow. After upgrading the Mac OS 9 on my black Powerbook G3 to Mac OS X, it became incredibly slow, to the point of being unusable! But I loved the new OS so much that instead of downgrading back to Mac OS 9, I went out and bought a new Titanium PowerBook G4. Was worth the enhanced user experience.

[@jake_lacroix5417]

I barely use my Mac anymore I switch for my iPad Pro w/ magic keyboard to my main laptop. Its perfect

[@HowieIsaacks]

Actually the Lisa was Apple’s first GUI based computer. It didn’t sell well, but it was still the first. The Xerox Star was released 3 years before Macintosh. Xerox got their product to market before Apple. I would like to see a video that discusses the orgins of Mac OS X. It all started with NeXT. OS X was a revamp of NeXTSTEP. Today all of Apple’s operating systems have their roots in the work done at NeXT. Most Apple users have no idea that manh of the technologies running their devices were created over 30 years ago.

[@WeirdMemes]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1">0:01</a> Xiaomi be like: really?

[@lghammer778]

Wow, that was really fun to watch! Thank you for posting this 😃

[@Tuberex]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="749">12:29</a> why are u not talking about the fact that apple made a time machine and released it to the public

[@stephanebosch9963]

Nice and very interesting, a good trip back in my childhood with this video. Just a precision: High Sierra also introduced APFS disk format which was a huge change (killing all non-SSD drives). Thanks for the nostalgia :D

[@nevhoffman]

Absolutely love your channel man and you put out some amazing content. As a regular watcher/subscriber can I respectfully request that background music going forward is either something different occasionally and/or forgone altogether? This track is just getting old imo and it's often too loud.

[@matthiasbreiter4177]

The reason for the slow UI of early OS X is more related to the fact, that it uses "Display PDF" rendering technique, derived from "Display PostScript" of the NeXT Computer is based on (which was infamous for the incredible display quality while being a slow UI ;) So basically anything on the screen is a PDF document. With Quarz Core I think in 10.4 Apple build a much quicker rendering engine and the UI became much faster (If I understand that correctly, it uses calculation power of the graphics chips). This is the reason why even today the display quality of macOS is still higher than most other computer Systems.

[@nickbrown1165]

I have never used Mac OS, but oki. Still love the video BTW. ❤️

[@jackmeoff6877]

Same 😁

[@mr.tutorial7267]

Boo windows users

[@1912RamblerFan01]

The first version of Mac OS I used was ~10.6, but the first I used on a daily basis after switching to a Mac was 10.10 "Yosemite." The oldest version of Mac OS I've used is Macintosh System 6.0.7.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="289">4:49</a> Before System 7, there was quite a lot of work happening in the 6.0.x series. For example, 6.0.7 backported the Mac II Sound Manager API to lesser Mac models. Also TrueType was made available as a drop-in extension for ≥6.0.5 users who couldn’t upgrade to 7.0.

[@FilCanJay]

Hope you keep updating this video for newer versions of the OS. This is great.

[@grosado8906]

that paid promotion was smooth

[@chickeninabox]

You don't know anything. G. you don't know anything. I will do everything. So in the 1990's the American Military invented the Internet and it soon became public. They owned the domains ".com", ".net" and ".org". They costed $8-13 Then there was a new organization that assigned every country a 2 letter code. The cost was made by the country. Now I have told you about domains. Yes they are called domains. You have a Dynamic IP Address. Which changes and isn't reliable because it changes. It makes it possible to connect to the internet otherwise it would be one person at a time. You need a Static IP Address. If you type ""6.6.6.6" in you browser it will bring you to nothing. Search it in an engine and you would see that it's somewhere in America. Your IP Address will change and will bring you somewhere else. Programming isn't hard It is an Advertisement. You will have to find a good place which is very easy. Don't spend half of your time in H.T.M.L. use that ii C.S.S. because you will need to learn all the properties. I hate Javascript. I am suspicious of React because Jens at Mojang said "Facebook creeps me out.". I don't know of PHP and it looks like an Email List. For Sql you have Microsoft Access. There is a thing called a C.M.S. It is 40mb bloatware that slowly rises to 1gb. I am trying to make a Off Site C.M.S. but I would have to break all of security. Most W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G. editors don't have advanced features to make a real website. Dreamweaver is close but you still have to code. I'm really good at this. I have written way more than this for average.

[@chickeninabox]

@Mr RandomIt's about the sponsor and why you shouldn't get it.

[@grosado8906]

@@chickeninabox bruh what? Take your useless info somewhere else

[@paco3523]

You mean the whole video? 😉

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@grosado8906 He's telling the truth. You are just too ignorant and programmed to see it, sheep! ;)

[@chrisray9653]

MacOS and the iOS family share the same kernel (the invisible part of an operating system), but the biggest design principle of iOS from Steve Jobs himself is that the mobile operating system should never have a dedicated file manager (Finder in MacOS). Each app would be responsible for file management appropriate for itself. That changes the focus of development tremendously.

[@v12ts.gaming]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="449">7:29</a> if you want to skip paid promotion

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="351">5:51</a> MacOS 8.5 was the one that added the theming engine, and some alternative themes were made available in the betas. These were all dropped before final release, but they did still work if you installed them.

[@gamerzer0004]

I think Catalina is one of the "not so good" version of MacOS

[@LambdaMiscellaneous]

Yeah

[@braingaming5569]

its actually not so bad

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

I think both Apple’s and Microsoft’s OSes are getting so complicated that every attempt to fix one bug just creates another one.

[@braingaming5569]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 your right, same like minecraft

[@faisalalmutairi1162]

Why?

[@KidNamedCullen]

I remember when High Sierra was the latest release. I can't believe so much has changed with macOS since then, leading up to macOS Sonoma in 2023.

[@maryamforoughi1744]

2000 was the best year of music Change. My. Mind. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="476">7:56</a> I LOVE HEARING 2000!!!!!

[@nickoffscript]

I think seirra/high seirra is my favorite. First macOS I ever used, in my moms old computer. (That computer is now mine, still running high seirra because it’s pretty old. Works perfectly though, I love it a lot haha) edit: lol reading this is interesting- snow leopard is probable my favorite now, but high seirra still holds a special place in my heart. that old computer is now a test subject, and I'm using an m1 mac now :D

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="228">3:48</a> Huh? They were *all* Motorola processors.

[@alexvar10]

Right, I think he meant the first Mac with a 68020 processor (previous models used a 68000)

[@kalibduarte536]

The key thing to understand of going from Mojave to Catalina is not that it dropped 32bit apps, it dropped a whole application OS within an OS that had been there since the begining: CarbonOS. The dual OS of CarbonOS + AppKitOS moved to AppKitOS + iOS, discontining an entire OS platform and the programs made for it. As seismic as dropping the ClassicOS and moving to the NeXTOS based platforms of AppKitOS and iOS.

[@jetlaw_1]

“A - R - S Technica’s John SyracusE...” Oof. Even worse than when he spelled out SCSI

[@encycl07pedia-]

The narrator (and presumably uploader) is a clod.

[@13mschen]

The pronunciation of Ars Technica's John Siracusa at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="508">8:28</a> sent me lol You can't expect any better from someone who hasn't heard his podcasts, but it's still hilarious. Great video :)

[@martymclean3763]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="480">8:00</a> Who tf pronounces Aqua like that?? 😂

[@taehyungstoe2327]

Thats- thats how a lot of people pronounce it like me but it depends on your accenr or where you live ig

[@muzocan]

Thank you for these videos! Two things: Pronunciations for SCSI - Skuz-ee and GUI - Goo-ee

[@BIGwillTHEGAME]

KZbin Vanced automatically skip his smooth transitions into sponsorship.

[@torinJP]

Hey, can you do a video about iPhone/iPad/iPod analytics. I don’t know what they mean. Go to settings>privacy>analytics&improvements>analytics data. I have a lot of “panic-full” messages in there and many other ones, I can’t find anywhere else which tells me what analytics mean, thanks.

[@nwh5027]

Mac OS or Windows? Reply for Mac and like for Windows 😆 Edit - thx for all the likes, my high is 70

[@danbh84]

Macos lol

[@nwh5027]

@@danbh84 cool Mac squad 😎

[@brendas.8520]

Mac

[@jannis3356]

Mac

[@CybernerdShua]

Linux

[@garrettfrick3830]

lol my dad still uses mavericks, but i can't complain, i LOVE skeuomorphism and mavericks was the last version of macos to use it. that's also why i absolutely adore ios 6, easily my favorite ver of ios

[@EverbladesECHLHockey]

I’m a Greg legend

[@CatsLivesMattter]

I started in 1998 with an old OS8, theb lab switched to colorfuld G3s and aftet that the white ones. I got myself a white ibook back in 2006 and never went back. Always been a mac user since 1998. ❤

[@theoriginals592]

One of the first 100 views Thanks for the like Thanks for 4 likes Thanks for 5 likes Wow

[@fedr39]

Snow Leopard was amazing and still their best MacOS in my opinion.

[@jackdey9153]

Stop randomly put sponsors in the middle of the video. Just put it at the end of the video like everyone does.

[@subhanjawad4666]

👍🏻

[@nurulafser6473]

Leopard is the best purely because Exodus Honey was ‘the Apple song’ in the late 2000’s and the beat is so catchy.

[@GalenlevyPhoto]

I’ve been using Mac OS since system 7.0 in 1993 all the way to currently using macOS Big Sur. I never forget the kernel panics in OS X 10.0. My favorite was system 8.5/8.6. Also the OS X snow leopard because of the icons are not flat looking like today and the rich features.. Most corporates have gone flat logo and icons since for about a decade. Oh by the way I do like macOS Big Sur. It does have a mixture of iPadOS and macOS in one.

[@rjaymolina]

Great video! Mavericks was my first venture into macOS. I remember thinking how nice everything was. Nothing felt like bloatware - everything was clean. I ended up (for better or worse) relying on all the first party apps through iCloud. Still going strong today on Sonoma

[@ridbensdale]

System 7 was the first MacOS I ever used. When I went to uni in 1995 Macs were the machines of choice for browsing the Web.

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Good video as always Greg. I enjoyed it a lot. (:

[@nearbeer2]

Nice stroll down memory lane, for sure. Start of mini-rant: My only critique, coupled with a request for a change, is about the soundtrack. The track in and of itself is fine for me, I suppose. And it was rather subtle in this one, compared to the other two videos that I have seen/heard that you used it in. But try as I may, try as I might, I just couldn't help but be distracted by it. It was better for the two videos for the model retrospectives of iPhones and iPads. As it is now, it does not feel fine as a signature soundtrack because I feel that it doesn't quite fit this video. Maybe it would work better (for me) if the duration loop length was somehow longer, overall. But the transitions between the end and beginning are just a touch too pronounced, such that it is. And it would be good to just mix things up a bit more with other tunes. Thanks for listening. End of mini-rant. Trepidatiously looking forward to checking out more of yer other videos.

Mac was not first consumer computer to use Graphical User Interface. Not even lisa was the first. Probably the first was Xerox Alto. But Mac was definitely a pinnacle computer in terms of elegance and user friendliness. It refined GUI in so many ways, it drove the entire industry and even tho commercially it was a flop, the first Mac always stood as a benchmark of how GUI should work and behave

@@nicksterj You could go out and buy it. Yes it was a high end workstation. But isn’t Mac Pro computer too?

[@maryamforoughi1744]

1999 was a great year! Britney Spears, (my favourite singer!) became popular, the Mac finally allowed you to browse the web, and 2000 was coming up! (My favourite year of music!) Did I tell you I'm in 6th grade?

[@novastar3990]

That was a smooth transition to an ad.

[@hondaj3521]

Lmao, I loved your square space sales pitch. So relevant, you sell out.