Apple's X Factor Talent Show

摘要

MacOSX Apple had been planning to completely rewrite its Mac operating system since 1987, and had got itself in a right old mess with a project called Copland that was about as successful as a North Korean rocket launch. In the end it had to go out of house and buy Steve Jobs' otherwise not-very-good company NeXT for its NeXTStep software as the basis of the next-gen Mac OS with an all-new codebase. Buying NeXT also meant it got not just some decent code but its old founder and principal visionary back in control. Former CEO Gil Amelio's Mac OS 10 (he'd have never dreamt up using the Roman 'X') would have looked like Mac OS 9 with a bell and the odd cereal-box whistle. (Come to think of it, I wish there was a Whistle sound in Mac OS X -come back Gil, all is forgiven!)