Editing MacOS (section)

=== Mac OS X 10.0 ===
{{Main|Mac OS X 10.0}}
[[File:MacOSX10-0screenshot.png|thumb|right|Screenshot of OS X 10.0]]
On March 24, 2001, Apple released Mac OS X 10.0 (internally codenamed Cheetah).<ref>Although the version is now called Cheetah by users, rare evidences can be found to prove that it was called so internally. For instance, a Q&A was created in 2005 which mentions it.{{Cite web |date=October 4, 2005 |title=Technical Q&A |url=https://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2004/qa1378.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518083217/https://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2004/qa1378.html |archive-date=May 18, 2008 |access-date=December 20, 2006 |publisher=[[Apple Inc.|Apple]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
The initial version was slow,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Mac OS X 10.0 |language=en-us |work=Ars Technica |url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/2001/04/macos-x/5 |url-status=live |access-date=2017-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417235838/https://arstechnica.com/apple/2001/04/macos-x/5 |archive-date=April 17, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> incomplete,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Mac OS X 10.0 – Page 17 – (03/2001) |url=https://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/01q2/macos-x-final/macos-x-17.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817083727/https://archive.arstechnica.com/reviews/01q2/macos-x-final/macos-x-17.html |archive-date=August 17, 2016 |access-date=2017-04-29 |website=archive.arstechnica.com |df=mdy-all}}</ref> and had very few applications available at launch, mostly from independent developers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Justin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S0AnCgAAQBAJ&q=Mac+OS+X+had+few+applications+available+at+launch%2C+from+independent+developers&pg=PA280 |title=Getting StartED with Mac OS X Leopard |date=2008-03-11 |publisher=Apress |isbn=978-1-4302-0519-7 |language=en |access-date=October 19, 2020 |archive-date=January 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111042259/https://books.google.com/books?id=S0AnCgAAQBAJ&q=Mac+OS+X+had+few+applications+available+at+launch%2C+from+independent+developers&pg=PA280 |url-status=live }}</ref> While many critics suggested that the operating system was not ready for mainstream adoption, they recognized the importance of its initial launch as a base on which to improve.<ref name=":0" /> Simply releasing Mac OS X was received by the Macintosh community as a great accomplishment,<ref name=":0" /> for attempts to overhaul the Mac OS had been underway since 1996, and delayed by countless setbacks.