Man iepatikās šī Mac OS X attīstības analīze. Raksta autors aplūko Stīva Džobsa stratēģiju, 10 gadu laikā soli pa solim aizstājot Mac OS ar OS X. Te neliels citātiņš no raksta beigām:
“The transition to a legacy-free OS X over the past decade has been such an over-whelming success for one simple reason: Apple has masked the degree of change that it was implementing in each release. Mac OS X 10.0 was actually a radical change, but it felt like the leap from OS 7.6 to 8, not from OS 8 to Red Hat Linux. And each successive version has maintained just enough of the familiar to make the changes easier to handle. And as we all know, a lot of small changes ultimately leads to radical differences. When Microsoft and Adobe finally created modern versions of their applications for OS X that were built using Apple’s XCode tools instead of the more comfortable CodeWarrior environment, it was clear that Jobs had won the adoption race through slow and steady steps forward. And that’s where we are today.”
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Adobe un Microsoft savus produktus netaisīja ar Xcode bet gan ar CodeWarrior. Tāpēc viņi arī nevarēja tik ātri uztaisīt natīvas intelMac versijas saviem produktiem. Un pat pēdējā Adobes CS3 paka ir taisīta Carbonā nevis Cocoā. Lightroom gan ir veidota ar Xcode.