[lynguist]

Snow Leopard even happened in the first place because Apple's A team was busy with iPhone, and iPhone has priority.

You will see that during this era Mac OS X was relegated to stepchild status and received far fewer support.

All this glory is just Steve Jobs selling it to us as a good thing! In the end it worked out, but it was more incidental and a collateral of the iPhone than the public memory likes to admit.