[kruuuder]

Funny to see the last screenshot of OS X from 2014 in the article. I would love to use a system with such a high contrast and information density. But I also remember very well how many users were upset with the most recent design changes at that time: The all caps section titles in the sidebar, and the gray icons that were previously colored.

[vintagedave]

It was worse than what came before, but we had no idea how bad it was going to get.

[lapcat]

Yes, IMO Tiger was actually peak Mac UI.

As soon as Apple released iPhone, the Mac took a back seat.

[cosmic_cheese]

Tiger with 10.5/10.6-style 2D grid virtual desktops and Mavericks traffic light buttons, or alternatively Mavericks with aqua scrollbars and 10.5/10.6-style 2D grid virtual desktops is very close to my ideal desktop environment.