Mac OS X: The Tide Is Turning. There's an old story in the UK about a man who stops an Irishman and asks him the way to
Tipperary. The Irishman's answer: "Well if you want to be going there, I wouldn't start
from here." This response is much like the strategy that Apple could have adopted in its
new operating system if it had continued developing Mac OS 9 from where it was four years
ago. [osOpinion]

One should also remember the story of NeXT computer: a system which was fine on paper but totally unusable for general users. Happily, Mac OS X is an evolutionary product, which happens to have a solid foundation and some well-thought ideas about future software development. And users have been listened, too. This can be seen in the improvements Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) brought to users.