2005! The future is here! You have just spent $129 for the newest release of Mac OS X: Tiger. You’re amazed by the brand new Spotlight and Safari RSS, you like your new OS so much you want to develop apps for it. You read on Apple’s website about this app “Xcode” that just received the version 2.0 update. That’s it! Time to code!
You fire up Safari, go to Yahoo! and start searching for Xcode tutorials, unfortunately, besides a bunch of Geocities websites mentioning “Web 2.0” (or whatever that means), you don’t find much information online on how to create apps for Tiger.
Wouldn’t it be nice to find a tutorial to help you to get started?
I attended a launch party for Tiger at a third party Apple reseller in Berlin. The good old days – when Apple was fun. Good times.
Nobody was using Yahoo! in 2005. GMail came out in 2004 and we were all using Google for years at that point.
drstorm,
Yahoo still had tons of users. Granted they failed at attracting new users and it’s a shell of what it used to be, but even today they still have a couple percent of the email market.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/11/04/millions-of-yahoo-mail-users-made-to-pay-for-popular-feature/?sh=4a9b21be4a5f
https://www.litmus.com/email-client-market-share/
I still use yahoo mail.
People weren’t using Yahoo for search much anymore but the mail and groups were still very much active (they had bought out various other apps like Flickr). People didn’t switch away from Yahoo email overnight; they had a link with BT so they provided BT Internet’s email services but I still use my Yahoo email address.
People weren’t using Yahoo for search much anymore but the mail and groups were still very much active (they had bought out various other apps like Flickr). People didn’t switch away from Yahoo email overnight; they had a link with BT so they provided BT Internet’s email services but I still use my Yahoo email address.
My G4 Mac Mini runs Tiger, though I am tempted to install Sorbet Leopard to see what all the hype is about.
Thanks for the tip. I think i might try that as well on my powerbook.
“Sorbet Leopard is the nickname of Mac OS X 10.5.9, an unofficial build of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) that was first released on October 31, 2021 to provide continued support solely for PowerPC Macs.”
https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Sorbet_Leopard
Oh my goodness I had no idea such a thing existed!!
Thom, if you’re reading this I’d love to read any articles you recommend on Sorbet Leopard. 🙂
Whoever wrote that post seems to have been pretty off as to how an Apple phone would look!
I remember buying this. I probably still have them in the box somewhere…. All my uni work was screenshoted on the Mac thanks to the lovely native implementation of java widgets (using swing of memory serves…)
I bought Tiger when it came out. I had a G4 eMac. Panther had been great; Tiger was a horrible bit of bloatware. The widgets (now gone) were a gimmick and the indexing system made everything slower. Although I could have got Leopard, I never did as I was afraid it would cause an even bigger deterioration.