![]() ![]() As shown at WWDC 97, Rhapsody would require Mac applications to be largely rewritten for the Yellow Box (later renamed Cocoa) APIs in order to take full advantage of Rhapsody’s protected memory, preemptive multitasking, and other modern features. ![]() The Rhapsody strategy would also be overhauled. In the following months Jobs ended the clone program, killed the Newton and other underperforming products, and introduced the Power Mac/PowerBook G3. Gil Amelio was fired in July, and Steve Jobs replaced him as CEO in September. I think it’s fascinating to examine this transition point in Apple’s history, in the context of the changes that transpired over the next year: Apple would also continue to develop the classic Mac OS, including the release of Mac OS 8 that summer. Five months after the purchase of NeXT, Apple demoed Rhapsody, a new NeXT-based operating system that would eventually replace the classic Mac OS. First up: WWDC 97.įrom May 13th through 16th, 1997, Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, CA. My aim is to make original slides/videos publicly available for the sake of preservation, add historical context, and to find interesting tidbits: undelivered promises, unrealized possibilities, presenters who would later rise through the ranks, etc. On the eve of WWDC 2017, I’m starting a new series of posts looking back at past WWDCs.
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