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High-contrast windows Windows in Big Sur are a study in contrast. Big SurвЂ™s design has rough edges and will need to be reined in a bit, but it also has a lot of potential. That said, a lot of aspects of the Big Sur felt comfortable to me after a week or two-probably because I also use an iPhone and an iPad, and Big Sur is picking up aspects of the design of those devices. And I expect that some of them will end up getting re-thought by AppleвЂ™s designers over the next couple of releases. There are definitely some aggressive, challenging changes in the macOS Big Sur design that will throw long-time Mac users for a loop. When Apple makes major operating-system design changes, they tend to start out a bit extreme and then get beaten into shape over time-until they become boring and are replaced by a new design. Now hereвЂ™s macOS Big Sur, getting ready to ring in the dawn of the third age of Mac. Did Apple use Catalina as a patsy so that Big Sur wouldnвЂ™t be blamed for all the changes required for the transition to Apple silicon? ThatвЂ™s probably a conspiracy theory too far, but I will say this: Good Cop macOS Big Sur fills me with excitement about the future of the Mac in a way Bad Cop Catalina never did.

It broke a lot of old software, frustrated a lot of users, and generally had the worst reputation of any macOS update since Mac OS X Lion in 2011. Last yearвЂ™s macOS Catalina felt like a release designed to settle old scores and clear the field for future advancement. ItвЂ™s macOS 11.0 Big Sur, which takes the familiar OS X and transforms it by importing a bunch of features from its long-lost relatives, iOS and iPadOS, including support for Apple-designed processors. Mac OS X, having been rebranded twice and reconstituted to run on Intel processors over its two-decade run, is shucking off its cocoon and emerging as something new. We remember the G3 iMac and the iPod and ultimately the iPhone as the products that brought Apple from the edge of failure to being one of the biggest companies in the world, but it wouldnвЂ™t have happened without Mac OS X.Д«ut here we are, at the end.

The code it originated with, and many of the software managers and programmers who built it, came to Apple in the same transaction that brought Steve Jobs back to the company.

Mac OS X was no less than a rebirth of the Mac, 16 years after it first appeared on the scene.

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