![]() Most importantly, major Mac software developers were not willing to rewrite their apps for the “Yellow Box” of NextStep. Rhapsody aped Mac OS 8 in its design language, but that design would be thrown away before OS X finally shipped. Classic Mac OS apps ran in a compatibility window. Software written for NextStep-what would become Cocoa-ran natively. ![]() Before there was Mac OS X, there was Rhapsodyīefore it was Mac OS X, the next-generation Mac OS was code-named Rhapsody. The macOS we use today is the result of iteration-sometimes rapid, sometimes painfully slow-over 16 major OS releases during those 20 years. As someone who was sitting in the front row at Macworld Expo when then-CEO Gil Amelio brought Steve Jobs on stage to celebrate Apple’s purchase of NeXT, it feels like I’ve been a witness to the whole story. Mac OS X has been through a lot in 20-plus years.
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