Editing MacOS (section)

=== OS X ===
[[File:The OS X Logo.svg|thumb|200px|OS X logo used until 2013]]
In 2012, with the release of [[OS X Mountain Lion|OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion]], the name of the system was officially shortened from Mac OS X to OS X, after the [[OS X Lion|previous version]] shortened the system name in a similar fashion a year prior. That year, Apple removed the head of OS X development, [[Scott Forstall]], and design was changed towards a more minimal direction.<ref name="guardian">{{Cite news |last=Arthur |first=Charles |date=2012-10-30 |title=Apple's Tim Cook shows ruthless streak in firing maps and retail executives &#124; Technology &#124; guardian.co.uk |work=Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/oct/30/apple-tim-cook-ruthless-streak |url-status=live |access-date=2012-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024152617/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/oct/30/apple-tim-cook-ruthless-streak |archive-date=October 24, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Apple's new user interface design, using deep color saturation, text-only buttons and a minimal, 'flat' interface, was debuted with [[iOS 7]] in 2013. With OS X engineers reportedly working on iOS 7, the version released in 2013, [[OS X Mavericks|OS X 10.9 Mavericks]], was something of a transitional release, with some of the skeuomorphic design removed, while most of the general interface of Mavericks remained unchanged.<ref name="Siracusa OS X Mavericks review">{{Cite web |last=Siracusa |first=John |date=October 22, 2013 |title=OS X Mavericks review |url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122114828/https://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9 |archive-date=November 22, 2015 |access-date=30 November 2015 |website=[[Ars Technica]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The next version, [[OS X Yosemite|OS X 10.10 Yosemite]], adopted a design similar to [[iOS 7]] but with greater complexity suitable for an interface controlled with a mouse.<ref name="OS X Yosemite review">{{Cite web |last=Siracusa |first=John |date=October 16, 2014 |title=OS X Yosemite review |url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/os-x-10-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124200435/https://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/os-x-10-10 |archive-date=November 24, 2015 |access-date=30 November 2015 |website=[[Ars Technica]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

From 2012 onwards, the system has shifted to an annual release schedule similar to that of [[iOS]] and Mac OS X releases prior to [[Mac OS X Tiger|10.4 Tiger]]{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}. It also steadily cut the cost of updates from Snow Leopard onwards, before removing upgrade fees altogether in [[OS X Mavericks]].<ref name="Mountain Lion Gruber Schiller">{{Cite web |last=Gruber |first=John |title=Mountain Lion |url=https://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811131321/https://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion |archive-date=August 11, 2015 |access-date=15 August 2015 |website=Daring Fireball |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Some journalists and third-party software developers have suggested that this decision, while allowing more rapid feature release, meant less opportunity to focus on stability, with no version of OS X recommendable for users requiring stability and performance above new features.<ref name="Apple has lost the functional high ground">{{Cite web |last=Arment |first=Marco |title=Apple has lost the functional high ground |url=https://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground |access-date=15 August 2015 |archive-date=October 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031132657/https://marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground |url-status=live }}</ref> Apple's 2015 update, [[OS X El Capitan|OS X 10.11 El Capitan]], was announced to focus specifically on stability and performance improvements.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hattersley |first=Lucy |title=Mac OS X El Capitan review: The best (and worst) new features |language=en-GB |work=Macworld UK |url=https://www.macworld.co.uk/review/mac-software/mac-os-x-el-capitan-mac-review-3613524 |url-status=live |access-date=2017-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511161056/https://www.macworld.co.uk/review/mac-software/mac-os-x-el-capitan-mac-review-3613524 |archive-date=May 11, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>