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On the Macintosh episode of Version History, @davidpierce.xyz & @reckless.bsky.social had fun riffing about Mr. Macintosh, Steve Job's idea for a digital cryptid who lives in your Mac. But 15 years later Apple basically shipped this, and instead of a little man it was a yak named Bruce. #Apple50

If you left older versions of Final Cut Pro running for 12 hours or more, you might come back to a small brown creature grazing a patch of grass on your timeline. There were other ways to intentionally trigger him, but this was the most fun one. #Apple50

Periodically, thought bubbles with "pearls of wisdom" would appear from its head, such as: “I'm glad it's getting weird again. I didn't understand it when it wasn't weird.” Another revealed his name: "You can call me Bruce the Wonder Yak" #Apple50

Bruce was actually part of FCP from the very beginning, spreading wisdom and confusion until he disappeared in FCP 7. At this point, he's been gone for nearly 2 decades now, but I probably remember him better than anything I edited on FCP back then. #Apple50