“After 15 years of providing Ars readers with deep insight into the internals of Apple’s desktop operating system, John Siracusa has announced that his OS X Yosemite review will be his last OS X review for Ars or for any other publication,” Lee Hutchinson reports for Ars Technica.
“John has published a review for every major OS X revision stretching back to the before the operating system’s formal release, and his explorations into the Unix-y underpinnings of OS X are the main reason why I am writing this retrospective on a Mac today,” Hutchinson reports. “His retirement post on Hypercritical states that in 1999 he was ‘at the forefront of long-form nerd-centric tech writing,’ and that’s absolutely spot-on. I still remember being absolutely mesmerized by his 6,000-word OS X Developer Preview 2 review in 1999, and I was in awe of how clearly it laid bare the still-developing internals of Mac OS X.”
“Of course, he’s not dying or anything — he’s just not doing any more ginormous OS X reviews. Fans of John can continue to follow his work at his site, Hypercritical; he also co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast, and if Twitter is your thing, you can tweet at him at @siracusa,” Hutchinson reports. “And, of course, John will always have an open guest spot on the Ars front page.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The end of an era. Good luck to Siracusa in his future endeavors!