Editor's Note: The Mac is certainly a landmark product, one of the many to make its way out of Cupertino in the last quarter-century. But not everything Apple touches turns to gold. We asked TidBits editor Adam C. Engst to list a half-dozen Apple efforts that probably seemed like good ideas at the time.
1. Macintosh IIvi and IIvx
We've come an incredibly long way from the initial System and Finder, but a Mac user plucked from 1984 and plopped down in front of a modern Mac wouldn't find it that foreign. We still have icons, windows, menus, and countless other interface elements that haven't changed. At the same time, both underneath the hood and in the way it connects to the outside world, Mac OS X is a completely different beast. So what can we expect from OS X over the next year or two? The short answer is "Not much beyond what we have now." OS X is Apple's core technology, and it isn't likely to change significantly in the near future.
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