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Apple admits Mac OS X transition a failure; announces Mac OS 9.5, Jobs steps down
April 4, 2006 | by Staff

Three years and three days too late, we take a look back in the dusty RandomMaccess archives and pull out our contribution to April Fool's Day 2003 -- when the Mac faithful was still split into "System 9" vs. "Mac OS X" camps, and the success of the transition to Aqua was anything but a sure thing.

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