2011 – 2020retired
Angry Birds Rio
“The birds flew home to Rio, and honestly, who could blame them.”
“Version 11 at last, after twenty years of 10s. It earned the extra digit.”
macOS Big Sur, version 11, was the seventeenth major release of macOS and the successor to Catalina, announced at WWDC on June 22, 2020 and released to the public on November 12, 2020. It brought the first user interface redesign since OS X Yosemite six years earlier — new blurs, squarer icons, a Control Center, and a revamped Time Machine. Named after California's coastal region, it was also the first macOS to suppo
After Big Sur's run, macOS Monterey arrived on October 25, 2021 and took over the mantle. Big Sur's place in history was secure: it was the first macOS version since the Mac OS X Public Beta in 2000 to see its major version number increment, jumping from 10.15 to 11 for the first time since 2001. It retired not in disgrace but as the operating system that welcomed the Apple silicon era.
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“The birds flew home to Rio, and honestly, who could blame them.”
“It kept 50,000 of your songs safe, then quietly handed the aux cable to YouTube Music”
“The login worked everywhere except the reason you got it.”