Of course, this change comes a year after iOS got its extreme makeover. The new OS’s headline feature is one that’s sure to make for a noteworthy chapter in the annals of OS X: an all-new user interface appearance. To signal the Mac’s newfound confidence, Apple has traded 10.9’s obscure surfing location for one of the best known and most beautiful national parks: Yosemite. This year, finally, Apple is ready with the new. Either way, in last year’s OS X release, Apple tore down the old. Or maybe Mavericks was just a victim of time constraints and priorities.
If iOS 7 was the explosive release of Jony Ive’s pent-up software design ethos, then Mavericks was the embodiment of Craig Federighi’s patient engineering discipline. It was the first OS X release from the newly unified, post-Forstall Apple. Non-subscribers can buy the e-book from the iBookstore or the Amazon Kindle store.īut for all its timidity and awkwardness, Mavericks marked a turning point for OS X-and in more than just naming scheme. Read it your wayDon't want to read an article this long on the Web?Īrs Technica premier subscribers can download a (free) Kindle or iBooks-compatible EPUB version of the complete review from the links in the 'tools' menu on the upper right of each article page.
