[Horsepoo!!!]

More an more apps are bundles (or package if you want to get technical) that can be dragged from a disk image. I found the Indy Demo to be a very friendly install.

This reminds me of pre-System 7 days where most apps were just one file that you could drag around from one media to another. This was really convenient in the days since lots of things had to be put onto diskettes so dragging only one file meant 'ease-of-use' to most people.

Only difference today is that things are more virtual now that the internet is here. But the concept remains.

I loved the way Macs worked back in the days. And OS X brings it back.

I just wish even more apps followed this bundle in a disk image idea.

Shame most Windows apps don't work that way. Some very small programs do but for the most part, things are still scattered all over the place in Win XP.

[CharlesS]

Agreed. In many ways, OS X feels like what the Mac OS should have become after System 6 rather than the unstable, bug-ridden mess that was System 7 and higher. Stability, drag-and-drop installs, clean white backgrounds, forward-looking interface design - we really have gone back to the good old days.

Too bad Apple had ever fired Jobs in the first place. If they hadn't, maybe NeXTSTeP would have been System 7.

[Krypton]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Agreed. In many ways, OS X feels like what the Mac OS should have become after System 6 rather than the unstable, bug-ridden mess that was System 7 and higher. Stability, drag-and-drop installs, clean white backgrounds, forward-looking interface design - we really have gone back to the good old days.

Too bad Apple had ever fired Jobs in the first place. If they hadn't, maybe NeXTSTeP would have been System 7.

I don't think that would have happened. Getting fired was actually pretty beneficial to Jobs as he had to start from scratch, innovating as only he knows how.

There's no way Apple would have gone Unix with their marbles intact at that early stage.

[Zadian]

Originally posted by Krypton:
I don't think that would have happened.

For all i know that was the reason he got fired. He wanted Apple to make a computer that was not a Mac, one that was better and "modern".
He got fired and made that computer he wanted to make - the NeXT Cube.

[mitchell_pgh]

OS X is almost where steve wanted NeXt to be. NeXt was way too advanced for the time. Most users didn't even understand what they were looking at. Much of the stuff we have on OS X are NeXt ports.

I think things worked out perfectly. I only wonder what happens when Steve dies.

Will Apple die?

As for being back in the "Good Old Days" I'm not 100% there. Although OS 8 had MAJOR issues, for design work, it was a ROCK... Photoshop 4/5, Illustrator 8 and Quark 4.1 were (and still are much of the time) a solid group of applications.

I don't have the new Photoshot (yet) but I'm missing some of the pure design... DON'T get me wrong, I KNOW apple wouldn't be here without OS X, and I love the Unix background and thing the design element is VERY nice, bu the Apps still feel like funky ports.

[Terri]

I think the fact that NeXT has basically gotten the Mac interface complete with, my favorite, Labels is a very good thing.

I never used NeXT, but from the screen shots and reading about it NeXT looked about as friendly as Linux.

I'm finally very happy with Panther, well I still don't like what they did to networking, but the rest is very good and Mac like.

I don't think that any of this would have happened if Steve and Apple hadn't gone down separate paths at one time.

I too wonder what would happen to Apple if something bad ever happens to Steve. Hopefully Apple is far enough down this new path that it could survive.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I think things worked out perfectly. I only wonder what happens when Steve dies.

Will Apple die?

He's only in his 40's, isn't he? No need to worry about that just yet.

[rjenkinson]

he's 48, if you can believe what you read on the internet.

-r.

[Terri]

Airplane crashes, car accidents, meteorites falling from the sky, Bill Gates gets drunk and shots Steve in a jealous rage…

I'm the same age as Steve, wish I was as rich, sh*t happens.

I think it is a good question, what would happen.