How prescient am I? The
December 23rd, 2001
How prescient am I? The last week has seen a spate of articles and Slashdot references about how MacOS X is gaining traction, at least over Linux, if not Windows (yet).
Browsing through the archives of my blogging activities from 2000 (back when my blog was named “Monkey-mind”), I stumbled across this:
MacOS X ships with stuff like Emacs, tcsh, and Apache . . . as well as running existing MacOS 9.x applications. That last part is the kicker, the reason why Linux will never be anybody’s desktop OS. For example, Adobe would be nuts to develop Photoshop for KDE and Macromedia wouldn’t even consider Dreamweaver for GNOME. But with MacOS X, you can have your cake (e.g. Photoshop) and your hearty bowl of oatmeal (e.g. Emacs) too!
and this:
What do you get when you marry a dump truck with a sports car? MacOS X. And you can drive it anwhere! Wouldn’t it be cool if the sweet combination of a FreeBSD-based core & a Macintosh interface could take the world by storm? … MacOS X can (theoretically) do anything Unix can do and (theoretically) run anything Unix can on PowerPC or (theoretically) Intel chips with an established GUI interface that makes GNOME and KDE look like kindergarden coloring books.
Looks like my prediction is finally coming true! :-)
Okay, so I’m not Nostradamus (who, by the way, was the #1 gaining search query on Google in 2001). But, dammit, I was right!