The next release of Mac OS X, Version 10.1 (known to Apple engineers as Puma ), was released in September 2001, just six months after the initial release of the system. With Puma, Apple focused on performance and ensuring that the critical Carbon layer was robust enough for Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop to be released. Puma, along with the large influx of applications that came with it, made it clear that Mac OS X was going to be a success and that the strategy for migrating from the old Classic Mac OS to the new OS was going to work.
The quick release cycle of Puma also indicated that Apple was moving rapidly to improve the OS in ways that were meaningful for both Classic Mac OS users as well as those switching from other platforms such as Windows. As a maintenance release, it was released as a no-charge upgrade—the only version of Mac OS X to date that didn’t have a price tag associated with it.
With Puma came the release of the last of the original iApps to make the jump from OS 9: iDVD. Apple’s Digital Hub strategy was now fully on Mac OS X, signaling that Apple’s application development efforts were now entirely focused on Mac OS X. Apple further strengthened the iApps strategy in January 2002 with the release of iPhoto for managing digital photos, and continued in July 2002 with the release of iTunes 3 as an update to the popular music jukebox application.
Also revealed in July at Macworld New York was .Mac (pronounced “dot-Mac”), a suite of Internet services, including those that used to be part of the older iTools service, and software. The new pay service included the McAfee Virex virus scanner and the new Backup software for making safe backups of critical data to .Mac.
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