> That mindset and development schedule — “What can we do
> to make this nicer by next year?” — may well be the most
> important thing from iOS that Apple has taken back to
> the Mac.
Did they really take that from iOS though?
From Wikipedia:
Version Codename Release Date
------- -------- ------------
Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah March 24, 2001
Mac OS X 10.1 Puma September 25, 2001
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar August 24, 2002
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther October 24, 2003
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger April 29, 2005
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard October 26, 2007
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard August 28, 2009
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion July 20, 2011
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion July 25, 2012
I could just as easily say that Apple was "learning from their early
development," or "getting back to basics."
I think it's our perception because I bet if you looked at a plot of users, it'd dramatically spike around the intel switch, which was around 10.3 / 10.4.
To my recollection, early versions of the OS (Cheetah) were essentially unusable for many applications. Puma was the first really usable version.
Remember, Mac OS X a brand new OS in 2001, slow and full of bugs. It was also sorely lacking in features. So of course development proceeded very quickly then. Later when the OS became mature, development slowed.
I think a Jaguarundi is also of the same class (or genus or whatever) as a Puma Concolor (i.e., cougar, puma, mountain lion, and that the name of that taxonomical grouping is also Puma. So maybe they referred to that with 10.1, or to a German shoe company.
From Wikipedia:
I could just as easily say that Apple was "learning from their early development," or "getting back to basics."