"…As called out in most of the reviews, the Snow Leopard announcement was a one-hour presentation showing tons of new things in the operating system, although that famous "zero new features" slide is all that people remember. There were tons of new APIs, tons of changes to existing APIs, dropping 32-bit machines completely, had a totally rewritten Finder, a totally rewritten QuickTime (a more commonly used app back then), and more. Yes, it was less user-facing features than was typical, but it was far from a "bug fixes only" release like it's been built up as in people's minds over the years.
Snow Leopard would receive 8 updates over the next 2 years before its successor was released, and I think that 10.6.8 is what most people have in their minds as what Snow Leopard was from the start. Imagine if Apple released an update and spent 2 years refining it over and over, instead of what feels like getting it out in the fall and then immediately shifting focus to the next year's …"
https://birchtree.me/blog/the-snow-leopard-weve-built-up-in-our-heads/
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