But the hope is that Apple will blend them into the Mac OS rather than graft them on.
Device that superficially resembles a large iPod with an 8-inch diagonal screen, lacks a keyboard, packs USB and FireWire ports and runs Mac OS X along with a variety of multimedia goodies.
At first, the job looked so big that Apple's programmers decided they should take the old interface in Mac OS 8 and try to graft it on top of the NeXTstep codebase.
It doesn't run Windows or Mac OS X, which means it doesn't support applications designed for either platform.
One of the more recent features in Mac OS X is the dashboard-a layer of handy widgets that you can call up by clicking the Dashboard icon in the Dock.
它可能與您的Mac OS X版本不相容。
And while there are a few brave souls out there sticking it to The Man with their Hackintoshes, for normal people the EULA rules: they run Mac OS X on Apple hardware.
Because large portions of the Mac OS were still based on creaky old code, Apple decided that it had to start from scratch.
"At this year's conference we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing.
Seems like nobody remembers this anymore, but IE4 was actually cross-platform—you could install it on Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX—and by the time IE5 was released, IE4 had reached a 60% market share.
Windows and Mac OS are sold in boxes.
Who says Mac OS is flawless?
