What the young Mr Jobs saw, in his own words, was "mind-blowing" he realised instantly that this was the way that all computers would work one day. The ideas behind OS X - in fact, the concept for windows, menus, pointers and so on themselves - go way back to 1979, when Steve Jobs was admitted to the research centre Xerox PARC for a sneak peek at the world's first ever GUI (Graphical User Interface), in exchange for some Apple stock options.īear in mind that at the time all computers used text input - there were no windows, no colours and no mouse to move a cursor around with. It was named after water because one of the original designers said it looked so good that "when you saw it you wanted to lick it!" It was certainly revolutionary compared to what people had seen before. OS X 10 was launched with a new interface called Aqua. That's a tall order, but eight major versions, millions of sales and a decade later, we think Apple did it. The company wanted it to be the kind of operating system with which a beginner could feel intuitively at home, and a pro user could be taken to places they'd never thought they'd be. How OS X evolvedįrom the outset Apple had one goal in mind when OS X was designed, and that was to make the next great personal computer operating system. Join us as we explore the world's most beautiful operating system and find out how Apple created it.
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