I have been going through my archives, and re-discovered the Cult of Mac’s article on Why It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taken 10 Years from Carbon to Snow Leopard.<\/p>\n
Here’s my thoughts, and a link to the article…<\/p>\n
First, the first release of Mac OS X, was actually Mac OS X Server 1.0, on October 27, 2000. \u00c2\u00a0Each version of the OS has evolved from the previous version, making incremental (sometimes large incremental) improvements…<\/p>\n
Why? \u00c2\u00a0Why not take the Microsoft route, and spend a extra year or so, and make a revolutionary change? \u00c2\u00a0For the same reason that Carbon was added into the plans of Mac OS X.<\/p>\n
If Carbon, the programming API that allowed Classic Macintosh applications to run as native Mac OS X apps, had not been included in Mac OS X, it would of meant the death of Mac OS X. \u00c2\u00a0The adoption rate would of been so low that the OS would probably have been stillborn.<\/p>\n
Evolutionary, incremental change is not necessarily bad, it allows the users and programmers slowly start to utilize the new features at their own rate of comfort. \u00c2\u00a0I expect with Snow Leopard, we will see some massive updates to applications, but only once the programmers have had time to digest what their options are.<\/p>\n
via WWDC Flashback: Why It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taken 10 Years from Carbon to Snow Leopard | Cult of Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been going through my archives, and re-discovered the Cult of Mac’s article on Why It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taken 10 Years from Carbon to Snow Leopard. Here’s my thoughts, and a link to the article… First, the first release of Mac OS X, was actually Mac OS X Server 1.0, on October 27, 2000. \u00c2\u00a0Each version […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[84,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}