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Who created Mac OS X?

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Apple acquired the NeXT company in 1996. They used the NeXT OpenStep software as the foundation for Mac OS X which they worked on between 1996 and 2000 releasing a beta version of Mac OS X on September 13, 2000. The first full version, Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah), appeared on March 24, 2001.

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Apple's industrial design for the last several years has been performed entirely in-house by Apple's Industrial Design Group, led by Jonathan Ive.

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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the creators of the Mac.
The original Apple computers (Apple I and Apple II) were developed by Steve Wozniak.

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Steve Jobs (I'm 95% sure).

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Bruce Horn

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