The word they would hear was 'Carbon.'Ĭarbon, they learned, is a software specification that would provide a bridge to Mac OS X, which Apple revealed as the new name for the next-generation operating system. But developers were still awaiting word on what the company said would be a new Mac OS strategy. Apple had just introduced the iMac, and a month earlier had reported its second consecutive profitable quarter. Coming at a time when Apple was still losing bucketfuls of money, it appeared that the company's latest OS scheme might go the way of the ill-fated Copland project.įast-forward to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, May 1998.
Mac developers were not thrilled with this scenario, and some-including Adobe Systems-held out the possibility of shunning Rhapsody.
