Bruce the Yak was Final Cut Pro’s Dogcow

I like to think I’m pretty knowledgeable when it comes to the weirdest corners of Apple history, but Cody Bromley’s recent blog post on a Final Cut Pro taught me I still have plenty to learn: On the Macintosh episode of Version History, David Pierce and Nilay Patel had a lot of fun riffing about Mr. Macintosh, Steve Jobs’s obscure concept for a digital cryptid who lives in your computer. About 15 years later, Apple actually shipped something very similar, except instead of a mysterious little man it was a yak named Bruce. 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. I mean, just look at this: It looks like Bruce was part of the very earliest versions of Final Cut Pro, as reported in 1999: An Easter Egg in Final Cut Pro, fondly known as “Bruce the Wonder Yak” is popping up on monitors…