Not exactly true. There were mounts you could only get from buy the trading cards (spectral tiger being the most popular)

My friend’s dad had one with a remote that when you changed the volume on the remote the volume knob would move. I thought it was so cool

What’s green and smells of pork?

! Kermit’s cock

It’s a number of reasons. One I don’t see already mentioned is that Apple and Google require apps to target the latest versions of their OSs and libraries. For example Google released a new version of the Google Play Billing Services library. All apps were required to update to the newest version by mid August (you could request a two month extension). So to the end user it seems like nothing has changed. But under the hood the app is now using the latest apis. This could also apply to non-Google/Apple apis. Maybe a change of the developers own api was necessary.

Some have speculated that it’s the origin of the Apple logo but Jobs confirmed it wasn’t.

It’s not even about profits. If companies don’t have to pay for expensive office buildings they can save money. It’s all the middle management realising their jobs are are unnecessary.

I agree with you about macos design. I’m not a fan of it either. It’s garish with over the top animations. The window manager is dreadful. Track pad gestures are great though as is spotlight search.

It kind of has to be mac. How else are you gonna test on safari?