

The last being Mac OS 10.15 Catalina in 2019. Mac OS X ended up featuring sixteen different iterations over the span of nineteen years. Now in 2001 Steve Jobs introduced Mac OS X and told us it would serve as the Mac’s operating system for the next two decades. It marks a completely new era for the Mac, and lays the groundwork for future models featuring Apple’s custom-designed ARM processors that could completely change the way Macs are used. Today, I’m going to explain the significance of the most recent macOS version called Big Sur, to be released sometime this fall. Since that initial release, macOS has gone through many iterations, but this video isn’t about the operating system’s history, that’ll be for another time. It set a new standard for computing by popularizing the graphical user interface and mouse.

MacOS has had a long history, stretching back to 1984 with the original classic operating system.
