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“It fed us the internet one feed at a time, until Google decided we were full.”
“Spotlight on, Dashboard glowing, gone before the Widgets even cooled”
Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4) arrived on April 29, 2005 at US$129.95, succeeding Panther as the fifth major release of Apple's desktop and server operating system. It brought Spotlight's fast searching, a new Safari, Dashboard, a 'Unified' theme, and improved 64-bit support on Power Mac G5s — features Microsoft had spent years struggling to match in Windows with acceptable performance. Apple called it the most succes
Six weeks after launch, Apple had delivered 2 million copies, reaching 16% of all Mac OS X users. Tiger shipped with every new Mac and remained available as an upgrade before the lineage moved on — Steve Jobs took the stage at WWDC 2007 on June 11 to announce what came next. It bowed out at its peak, a retirement earned rather than imposed.
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“It fed us the internet one feed at a time, until Google decided we were full.”
“It learned your voice sentence by sentence, then fell quiet.”
“Tasman deserved better, and so did we.”