Comment by bonaldi

You're right that W95 offered a better window management paradigm, but for me that was also hobbled by the inconsistencies: MDI apps handled windows differently from SDI apps, for instance, and you couldn't be certain what was minimized where. The Mac did have fewer features, but they all worked in a totally consistent and coherent way.

(You're also right about the technical aspects — Mac OS was a talking dog that also said very interesting things. Don't forget how you could install Control Panels and Extensions in the right places just by dropping them on the System Folder, or how you could make a disk bootable with just two files).

I too am pretty disappointed with the state of competition in UX right now. Man, at one point we had Amiga Intuition, SGI's Irix, OS/2, Sun NeWS, NextSTEP, Mac OS, W95 and NT all contributing pretty smart ideas to the desktop UI, and it was a genuinely exciting time. Android vs iOS is miserably dull in comparison.