Apple Has Already Started Work on Mac OS X 10.8

[76ShovelHead]

Why does anyone with 10.8 need to get on MacRumors?

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Not yet... I have been saying OS Xi for OS11

Xi is actually greek for "14." Roman numeral 11 is spelt "XI."

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They should use Dinosaur names

10.8 Triceratops (with enhanced security)
10.9 Velociraptor (with enhanced speed)
11.0 Tyrannosaurus Rex (will dominate everything)

Sound's like a naming-scheme more suited for Linux.

 

[Seppentoni]

OSX - Cumulus
OSX - Stratus
OSX - Cirrus

 

[divinox]

So.... this means that Apple is rushing to fight the rushed W8, which was rushed to fight the ipad? Awesome!

 

[SilianRail]

After 10.9 comes 10.10.

10.10 is numerically inferior to 10.9, did you skip 3rd grade?

 

[Alchemist]

My favourites

I'd go for any of:

10.8 Steve
10.8 Liger/Tigon
10.8 Sabre-Tooth Tiger

 

[macnerd93]

I do remember Steve Jobs saying OS X has set apple up for the next 20 years, so If things are still in that strategy it maybe quite a while before OS 11

 

[divinox]

10.10 is numerically inferior to 10.9, did you skip 3rd grade?

...only when assuming base 10. then again, i doubt they teach beyond the decimal system in third grade.

 

[sionharris]

OS X Maru, boxed version only.

 

[Lord Appleseed]

I call Sabertooth Tiger!

Mountain Lion

"The cougar, also known as puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount or panther..." (Wikipedia)

All the same cat; so no, we'll not see a cougar or mountain lion OS.

 

[Padraig]

Sure, perhaps better title would have been. "Apple Employees Should be Working on OS X 10.8 But Instead Are Browsing MacRumors.com."

arn

Browsing Macrumors in Apple is a quick way to end up unemployed. Nor is it permitted - even at home - to be posting on these types of rumor sites.

 

[Chipg]

OS X Liger.

Ha ha ha ha

 

[dampfdruck]

I hope that 10.8 doesn't become too much of an itoy but more of a professional OS (again). In the meantime I would be very very very happy with more bug fixes for 10.7

 

[jaedreth]

Of course Apple has started on 10.8!

I used to work for AppleCare in Austin, and I can tell you that Apple starts up its next operating system development as soon as the old one is out the door.

Apple doesn't waste time. This is why Apple has been able to deliver new operating systems every 2 years like clockwork, unlike Microsoft.

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Ha ha ha ha

Actually, I think it's about time for Apple to transition from wild cats to domesticated cats.

Mac OS X Mau, Mac OS X Manx, Mac OS X Black Cat, Mac OS X Tabby

*JOKING*

 

[jowie]

I'm just holding out hope for 10.6.9 iCloud edition

Would love to upgrade to Lion but can't

 

[Seppentoni]

There will be several Versions of 10.8

OS X Home
OS X Home Premium
OS X Professional
OS X Ultimate

 

[Renzatic]

...we'll not see a cougar or mountain lion OS.

Such a shame. I'd love to call up Apple tech support after buying OSX Cougar, and say...

"Yo, Apple! Sup, brah? So me and my bros, we like went out and bought Madden '13 to play on his Xbox, and we saw this thing you made called Cougar or something. So me and my bros, we were like 'awesome'. So we got it, and...yeah, dude...we haven't seen hot older chick one show up yet. I just got through eating all this viagra my bro Brandon stole from his stepdad, and I don't want this thing I'm sportin' to go to waste on nothing, if you know what I'm saying. So if the totally smokin' moms don't start showing up, like, post haste or something, I'm gonna kick your ass, and get my money back. You got me, brah?"

...but if they decide not to go with Cougar, then I'll accept OSX Fluffykins. That's the next best thing.

 

[ZipZap]

Maybe they should utilize all of their resources to fix Lion instead of working on a major release.

Apple, here's a thought...Make what you have work properly.

 

[dampfdruck]

Maybe they should utilize all of their resources to fix Lion instead of working on a major release.

Apple, here's a thought...Make what you have work properly.

I agree. 10.7 is very buggy.

 

[foidulus]

Looks like the hits from 10.8 are about double the hits from 10.7. Is this attributed to the increase in traffic from Apple to MR or the number of people testing it.

Do you know arn ? Has Apple been visiting MR more lately ?

May very well have to do with the death of Steve Jobs, probably a lot of Apple ppl checking MR for more info on that.

 

[scottishwildcat]

Launchpad is fantastic. I use it all the time to launch applications not in the dock. Beats opening up the finder and scrolling through a tiny list.

Why would you do that when all you need to do is type a couple of letters of the app name into Spotlight, though?

I don't mind the concept of Launchpad. But the current implementation is terrible. It took me over an hour to arrange all my apps the way I wanted to into folders etc, most of which was spent chasing flying icons around the screen, dealing with the arbitrary too-small limit on number of apps per folder, and manually sorting things into alphabetical order, which is ridiculous in this day and age. Then I have to do it again every time I install a new app.

I gave up on it after about a day.

 

[RobertMartens]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

no duh? don't you mean duh?

 

[marcusj0015]

After 10.9 comes 10.10.

And at that point they'll just adopt Ubuntu names

 

[*LTD*]

Smart money says they already have OS X running nicely on an A-series based Mac.

 

[69650]

I agree. 10.7 is very buggy.

That's probably because all their best programmers are working on iOS instead.

Eventually OSX and iOS will merge into one. Either 10.8 or 10.9 will be that final version.

 

[carlemil]

Everyone is talking about Lion as was it a terrible vista, speed clogging, OS.

Am I the only one who has seen speed increasment over Snow Leopard, and just experienced an all together OS improvement?

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Why would you do that when all you need to do is type a couple of letters of the app name into Spotlight, though?

I don't mind the concept of Launchpad. But the current implementation is terrible. It took me over an hour to arrange all my apps the way I wanted to into folders etc, most of which was spent chasing flying icons around the screen, dealing with the arbitrary too-small limit on number of apps per folder, and manually sorting things into alphabetical order, which is ridiculous in this day and age. Then I have to do it again every time I install a new app.

I gave up on it after about a day.

The only thing I find problematic about Launchpad is that you can't choose which apps not to be included in launchpad, and that it is to easy to click outside of an app area, resulting in launchpad returning to the desktop, and you have to open up launchpad again.