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Apple's Future OS X Names May Include Yosemite, Mammoth, Big Sur, Redwood, Pacific, and More
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Some people really need a reality check. Very few people know this, but Apple is actually the world's most successful computer manufacturer, making an estimated 45% of all profits in the desktop and laptop computer market. Why would anyone in their right mind think of closing down a business that is the same size but three times as profitable as the whole of Dell?
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There was MacOS 1.0 in 1984 (actually I think I've seen a 0.9 version), and then it went through the numbers until 6.0 introduced multitasking, it got stuck on 7.5 for a while, then came MacOS 8, then MacOS 9. These versions were counted from 1 to 9.
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Why is that those - and there seems to be plenty of them - who complain about 10.10 being (mathematically) the same as 10.1 appear to be quite happy with 10.9.2. Unless the rules of maths have changed recently, you can't have 2 decimal points in a number
10.4.11 of a few years agos is strong precedent that numbers can go to 10 and beyond.
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It should be obvious by now that MacOS X was successful beyond all imagination, so Schiller's statement is as true now as it was in 2001: MacOS X is the operating system for the next 10-15 years.
Yosemite's taken... B&W G3.
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Great. And so is a Puma and Jaguar... all versions of Mac OS X.
DAHURR DAHURR DAHURR DAHURR! Genius.
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Great. And so is a Puma and Jaguar... all versions of Mac OS X.
DAHURR DAHURR DAHURR DAHURR! Genius.
This. Namelessness was good enough for Apple's OS up until 10.2 Jaguar (Cheetah and Puma were never used as branding). I refer to releases as '10.x' rather than '[cat name]', and 'Mavericks' makes me think of James Garner and Tom Cruise rather than Cali surf dude coolness.
Such branding makes sense for (say) Intel microprocessors, where the numbers are indecipherable to 99% of the world's population but the Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge / Haswell etc branding at least gives an idea of the generation, but for a single, sequentially numbered product like OS X? Nah.
branding
and probably more than half the users prefer a name over numbers.
numbers are geeky
names aren't
for numbers to work for most people, it would have to be like iOS..
os8, os9, os10, os11 etc.. instead of 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 etc
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[edit] i wrote that as if i were saying it from an authoritative point of view.. it's more of a guess though
Get over yourself. They are a PRIVATE company which has strong roots in California. Too jealous? Simple: don't buy.
Seriously, NYC ego-centrism is all over the media and no one cares.
Reticence
I did not have much to say. The naming issue "moved me" to eloquence. But, I'm an active reader. Maybe I'll write again, 10 years hence (hmm, 10 - 10).
So until then "the rest is silence" .
HAMLET
O, I die, Horatio.
The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England.
But I do prophesy the election lights
On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.
So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
-Hamlet
I did not have much to say. The naming issue "moved me" to eloquence. But, I'm an active reader. Maybe I'll write again, 10 years hence (hmm, 10 - 10).
So until then "the rest is silence" .
HAMLET
O, I die, Horatio.
The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England.
But I do prophesy the election lights
On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.
So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
-Hamlet
Star or constellation themes would have been nice.
OS X Lyra
OS X Taurus
OS X Procyon
OS X Orion
OS X Polaris
OS X Rukbat
OS X Rigel
OS X Nusakan
OS X Achernar
(A list can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proper_names_of_stars )
OS X Lyra
OS X Taurus
OS X Procyon
OS X Orion
OS X Polaris
OS X Rukbat
OS X Rigel
OS X Nusakan
OS X Achernar
(A list can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proper_names_of_stars )
The following should probably be avoided...
OS X Duhr
OS X Jabbah
OS X Phad
OS X Sadr
OS X Sarin
OS X Scheat
OS X Sham
OS X Skat
OS 10.10 "Dos Equis"
Get The Most Interesting Man In The World to do the ads for it.
"I don't always use OS X. But when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Think different, my friends."
Get The Most Interesting Man In The World to do the ads for it.
"I don't always use OS X. But when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Think different, my friends."