Summer is winding to a close, and we just received our invitation to Apple’s annual music-oriented event. New iPod touches are almost certainly on the menu–possibly with a front-facing camera for FaceTime and maybe even a Retina Display thrown in fo…
Emily Dickinson quipped that we turn not older with years, but newer every day.
While she might have been blathering on about birthdays and their connection to the human condition, you could cram Dickinson’s observation into a conversation about OS X’s ninth anniversary and get away looking pretty smart – After all, with Apple pumping out constant updates and tweaks to our favorite operating system, you’d be hard pressed to convince Mac users that OS X is getting long in the tooth – it’s simply getting newer every day.
While purists might argue that OS 10.0 was born on 13 September 2000, with the release of Apple’s ‘Kodiak’ public beta, the rest of the Apple-using universe tends to agree that March 24, 2001 was when OS X was truly born. Those of you that loves them some Gregorian calendar will most likely have taken note that March 24 is, well, today.
In the nine years since OS 9 shuffled off this mortal coil, OS X’s balance of stability, speed and a user-friendly interface have proven popular enough with Cupertino’s elite and end-users alike to provide for eight overhauls and more updates than you can shake a really big thing at.
Happy Birthday OS X!
