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Knol
“A unit of knowledge, measured, and found lighter than Wikipedia.”
“A steady climb, a quiet goodbye — the mountain rests.”
OS X Mountain Lion, version 10.8, arrived on July 25, 2012, sold and downloaded through the Mac App Store. It was the ninth major release of Apple's desktop and server operating system, named as a refinement of its predecessor, Lion. Apple's stated aims were to let users more easily manage and sync content between devices and to make the OS feel more familiar — bringing Notification Center, Notes, Reminders, Messages
Mountain Lion's end came not with a crash but a handoff: it was part of Apple's switch to releasing OS X versions online every year rather than every two, so it was inevitably followed down the trail by the next version. Its retirement in 2012's calendar cycle was a graceful one. What it left behind was a Mac that felt more at home alongside an iPhone — and a reminder that even beloved operating systems are just seas
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“A unit of knowledge, measured, and found lighter than Wikipedia.”
“It read the logs so you didnt have to — the quiet ancestor of every analytics dashboard.”
“It moved the Start button. We're still deciding how to feel about that.”