El Cap on a 2007 iMac

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N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
The problem with Lion wasn't its features, it was its execution. Memory management in particular was atrocious in Lion.

Yes, Jobs was at Apple's helm when Lion was announced, but do you truly believe he was as involved in its development as he had been with previous versions of the OS? Keep in mind the liver transplant Jobs had in April 2009 and the medical leave of absence he took in January 2011 (from which he never fully returned). I'm sure he was involved as his illness permitted him to be at the time, but I do not believe he was nearly as involved as he had been in the past. His presence at WWDC that year was essentially as a figurehead.

We probably disagree on this but here's how I view Lion, it was the OS for iCloud, and iCloud was on Steve's bucket list for a very long time, and he was very involved in making those WWDC 2011 technologies (including building a new datacenter) happen, maybe sooner than when they were really ready due to what he knew about his health.

Also remember that Snowleopard was a "no new features" release, so Lion was the first feature release since Leopard in 2007 (and it's release was delayed due to shifting resources to the iPhone) and development of it's features probably began around 2007.

Here's Steve Jobs in 1997 describing his vision of what eventually became iCloud and a lot of the direction Apple has been taking.

https://youtu.be/GnO7D5UaDig?t=808