> In fact, nowadays OS X is the most conservative UI (compared to Windows 8 and Gnome). It's essentially unchanged since the beginning.
I thought that myself until I recently had to boot and sort something out on an older powerpc mac. Just how different an early OS X was to the current one was quite shocking to me. I think the reason we think that it is essentially unchanged is because they've pursued a slow, steady, measured set of carefully considered improvements. See this pic of OS X 10.0 to see what I mean
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Date: 2014-05-20 03:16 pm (UTC)I thought that myself until I recently had to boot and sort something out on an older powerpc mac. Just how different an early OS X was to the current one was quite shocking to me. I think the reason we think that it is essentially unchanged is because they've pursued a slow, steady, measured set of carefully considered improvements. See this pic of OS X 10.0 to see what I mean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MacOSX10-0screenshot.png