Shortly after the July 2011 release of Mac OS X Lion, Snow Leopard’s successor, some Mac users were already looking back nostalgically. In recent years, the phrase has reached mythological status in the Apple community, a catch-all referring to stable software and “the good ol’ days” of the Mac.īut how did this perception develop? Was Mac OS X Snow Leopard really the gold standard of software releases, an undefeated champion in the halls of computing history? Believe it or not, the meme is almost as old as the software itself. Following the news that Apple had refocused their plans for iOS 12 around stability and performance over new features, many were quick to liken the move to a “ Snow Leopard release” of iOS.
