Mac OS 10.4 Tiger is out, and everybody has something to say. Daring Fireball’s “Tiger Details” makes the following elegiac remarks:
While booting, Tiger no longer displays a series of vaguely-informative status messages describing which subsystems are launching. All you see during the Tiger boot sequence: the gray Apple logo screen, then the spinner under the Apple logo, then a progress bar with the text, “Starting Mac OS X”. Next up is the Login panel.
Gone, therefore, is the phrase “Welcome to Macintosh”, which I believe (as does Nat Irons, who submitted this observation) was the last remaining high-profile usage of “Macintosh” by Apple. “Mac” is used all over the place – PowerMac, iMac, eMac, Mac OS X, .Mac — but the full “Macintosh” has apparently been placed on the same shelf as the six-color Apple logo.
This is what it looked like, twenty years ago:
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