10.6 Referenced in iPhone SDK Installer

[MongoTheGeek]

This thread reminds me of a joke.

Does anal retentive have a hyphen in it ?

Bada bing bada bam bada boom

No, A colon.

Love that joke.

 

[AppleNewton]

10.6 LeopardII

10.6 Stray-Cat

 

[mainstreetmark]

Take your pick:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae#Classification

I'm going for "Lion". Jaguar, Leopard and Tiger are there and the genus (?) is PANTHERa

 

[Axemantitan]

No, they didn't. For the nth time, OS X simply means "Generation (uni)X" of Macintosh OS. This means that we now currently have version 5.3 of the unix generation Mac OS.

If that is the case, then why is it pronounced "ten" and not "ecks?"

 

[RoboCop001]

Sooooooooo basically........




Am I right?

 

[Parky]

I think they will cling to that roman X for dear life and go up to 10.9.9 if necessary... they kind of painted themselves into a corner by making the X such a huge part of the branding.

I'm kinda thinking they will go for "11" rather than "XI"... I know which of the two any graphics designer would prefer to play around with when designing packaging etc.

They can also go for 10.10, 10.11 and 10.12 etc etc

There is already a precedent in 10.3.11 i.e. they don't stop at 9 for sub numbers. I know it is not the same level as 10.10 BUT it is possible.

 

[Diggity-Dan]

I also say Lion will be the last release of OS X, whichever release that ends up being, so it can be marketed as the "King" of the OS X series.

My thoughts exactly. The final release of OS X will be marketed as the King of the jungle.

 

[Quillz]

10.6 already? Mind you, those of us who were OS X users from the start remember the short interludes between 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2. I'm wondering if, since they're clearly referencing 10.6 in existing code, it might: a) arrive on a similar timescale to the early 10.0-to-10.2 era – remember, the 10.4-.5 gap was unusually long; and b) contain something very cool – so cool that Apple are already building for its capabilities in their internal code trees right now.

As for post-X, I can't see Apple throwing out the OS X moniker. OS X is a platform, not a version. It would be akin to Microsoft no longer calling their operating system Windows. I see no issue at all in having Mac OS X, Version 11.0. When I'm asked what OS the Mac uses, I say OS X, not OS 10.5. In my mind at least, OS X and the actual version number are two distinct labels. The About This Mac dialog seems to support this.

I've never thought of it like that before, and I suppose that makes sense. Though Leopard may simply be "Mac OS 10.5," the actual Mac OS has also been upgraded to the newer platform, "Mac OS X," which would explain the somewhat confusion versioning scheme.

 

[CunningWard]

Weee!

10.6 Thundercat!

 

[Anuba]

I'm going for "Lion". Jaguar, Leopard and Tiger are there and the genus (?) is PANTHERa

Lion is my guess as well, and once you go for the king and you've done all the big cats, there's really nowhere you can go from there. You can't follow up Lion with Lynx or, uh... Polecat.

So here's my guess:

10.6 a.k.a. Lion will be the last MacOS to support PPC.
It will also conclude the X lineage.
It will be succeeded by the Intel-exclusive OS 11.

 

[ckurowic]

That is the exact reason they picked "X" as opposed to "10".

And you know this how? Its simply a roman numeral for "10"...period.

 

[Eric S.]

My thoughts exactly. The final release of OS X will be marketed as the King of the jungle.

For a big cat, the lion is rather slow, heavy, and generally inactive. Not exactly the image one desires in an OS!

 

[72930]

If that is the case, then why is it pronounced "ten" and not "ecks?"

While Apple stick to 'ten', most people use 'ecks', and this does sound a lot better than 'eleven'.

 

[tibi08]

10.0 was Cheetah
10.1 was Puma
10.2 was Jaguar
10.3 was Panther
10.4 was Tiger
10.5 is Leopard

Lion, Lynx, and Cougar haven't been used... And I thought I read somewhere that Cougar and Lynx are already trademarked by Apple.

What about pu$$y? That's a kind of cat....

 

[razorianfly]

And I thought I read somewhere that Cougar and Lynx are already trademarked by Apple.

Your memory did not fail you.

R-Fly

 

[mogzieee]

Lion, Lynx, and Cougar haven't been used... And I thought I read somewhere that Cougar and Lynx are already trademarked by Apple.

I really do hope it's Lynx next time in 10.6, it sounds so cool... ish.

And I hope they save up Lion for their last release, its really big and proud and the largest predator for OS X.

(if that made any sense)

 

[Axemantitan]

I really do hope it's Lynx next time in 10.6, it sounds so cool... ish.

And I hope they save up Lion for their last release, its really big and proud and the largest predator for OS X.

(if that made any sense)

I still say sabretooth would be the most awesome name.

 

[Kuska]

OS X stands for OS 10. If they went to 11.0 it would simply be OS XI

'OSXI' Sounds great - Go on keep saying it, 'sounds nice' and the kids will love it

 

[ro2nie]

Take your pick:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae#Classification

Mac OS X 10.6 Asian Golden Cat
or
Mac OS X 10.6 Chinese Mountain Cat

 

[VincentPun]

I think Mac OS 11 will be named as "X1"?

And great pic, Yebot.

 

[GuillaumeB]

Maybe the 10.6 piece of the code is right now to chek that you DON'T have 10.6... .ever think of that?

Hum... and who would have 10.6 anyway....?

 

[72930]

Hum... and who would have 10.6 anyway....?

I'm guessing there are internal staff with software labelled 10.6

 

[keehun]

10.6 was referenced like a few months ago on Webkit development SVN.

 

[aLoC]

Maybe with 10.6 they're trying to reduce the development cycle back to shorter like it used to be. It's wise with a complicated piece of software to do regular releases. Also there has been some discontent with 10.5, more so than past releases, so maybe they just want to put it behind them.

As for code names, Microsoft has stopped using code names and just uses the numbers by themselves now, e.g. Windows 7. Maybe Apple will not come up with a replacement for the cat names, but rather just drop code names altogether.

 

[Macminiintel]

Think how long the Original Mac OS was out

Steve said himself Mac OS X is gonna support Apple for at least the next 15-20 years. he said that in 2005. If you think how Long the original Mac OS was out for, then that should give us an idea, (1984-2001). Apple had a funeral for Mac OS in 2002, when OS X would then be pre-installed on all machines.