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Anyone think Tiger won't be called "Tiger"?

Mr. Anderson said:
tigger is great.... bottoms are made of rubber, tails made of springs....

shakespeare said it best - "what is in a name?"

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Don't think Steve would want to go there, that family keeps suing Disney all the time.

They're worse than Apple Corps Ltd.
 
It makes no sense to me that Apple would throw away months upon months of product branding. If they changed it at the last minute to something other than Tiger, no one would know what the hell they were talking about.
 
Lacero said:
Puma and Cougar are also names of shoes for crying out loud. I want my Lion!
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Jaguar and Cougar are also the names of cars. Lion is a chocolate bar. Cheetah is the name of an obscure CD burning app for Windows. Your point? :D
 
of course Tiger better than Longhorn

the next OS Mac 11 or what ever they call it. should go reptile ! Snakes ???
Mac OS 11.0 Anaconda? Python? Diamondback?

FIERCE.

longhorn i just dont get. neither do my PC friends whatever.
 
capone2 said:
longhorn i just dont get. neither do my PC friends whatever.
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Once it gets closer to release it will be renamed following Microsoft's current trend (except for XP): Windows 2010 (Now with SP5!)
 
wordmunger said:
That's kinda my point: associations with Tigger, Tony the Tiger, etc. = uncool. Of course I thought iPod socks were uncool, too, so what do I know?
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If one wants to get technical, Tigger is not a tiger. I believe he's actually a "Jag-u-lar" if I remember my Winnie the Pooh correctly. :rolleyes: :D ;)
 
5 releases per OS

it was from someone at apple, I can't remember if it was Steve, Phil S. or someone. I clearly recall- 5 releases per OS.

With Apple you never know........

Correcting myself. 5 was the max. or 10 will only have 5, thats what it was. :confused:

sorry for the confusion.
 
I thought they originally went public with Jaguar because it was easier to charge $129/£99 for it. 10.1 was free, so it didn't matter that it sounded like 10.0. However, by giving each major upgrade of the OS a name, it can be marketed better as a reason to shell out for it. 10.4 doesn't sound that much greater or different than 10.3, but "Tiger" is something it can easily be identified with.

As for the Tiger name itself - I can't see any reason why it is a weaker name than Jaguar or Panther, or even Puma or Cheetah for that matter.
 
I told my wife the other day that the new windows version is called longhorn and she said:

"So they're naming it after sheep?"

I explained to hear that it wasn't sheep, but now that I think about it, sheep describe the "innovators" at MS pretty well.
 
bluesloth said:
I told my wife the other day that the new windows version is called longhorn and she said:

"So they're naming it after sheep?"

I explained to hear that it wasn't sheep, but now that I think about it, sheep describe the "innovators" at MS pretty well.
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Using codenames for products is a fairly common practice in companies of all sorts. Apple and Microsoft are exceptions to the rule that codenames usually stay secret; Microsoft brandishes their codenames like weapons, and Apple markets some of their products, like Mac OS X, by their codenames. Anyone that uses codenames usually has a system for assigning them. Apple's codenames for Mac OS X are based on big cats. Microsoft's codenames come from various ski resorts. Anyone remember that Windows XP was codenamed "Whistler"? That name, like "Longhorn", was lifted from the name of a US ski resort.
 
Whister is a mountain, longhorn is a bar and blackcomb is the other mountain. Blackcomb is/was the codename of the next version of Windows after Longhorn. Of course that was when Longhorn was just going to be a XP+ upgrade.
 
Chris Grande said:
Whister is a mountain, longhorn is a bar and blackcomb is the other mountain. Blackcomb is/was the codename of the next version of Windows after Longhorn. Of course that was when Longhorn was just going to be a XP+ upgrade.
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The MS developpers are getting drunk - while having a rest between whitler and blackcomb.
 
wordmunger said:
Reason #1 why Mr. Anderson does not have Mr. Jobs' Job:

Of course it MATTERS! Image is everything!
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Ah, the #1 Reason I don't have Mr. Jobs' job is that I wouldn't want it :D

D
 
while we're at it, the name calling...

Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, all fierce creatures...

Longhorn... some cow???

anyone else notices the difference??

ok bit offtopic but its all about the names ;-)

I would like it if they would call Longhorn: Marvin -> hence the neurotic robot in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Windows Marvin, it will make its users all depressed and so on ;-) maybe it will come in a black box with big friendly letters saying: "Don't Panic" gnagnagna

remember Marvin made a computer commit suicide... hmmm now I start wandering what this MarvinOS could do to a network (evil me)
 
capone2 said:
the next OS Mac 11 or what ever they call it. should go reptile ! Snakes ???
Mac OS 11.0 Anaconda? Python? Diamondback?

FIERCE.

longhorn i just dont get. neither do my PC friends whatever.
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Mac OS 11.0 Asp

"Asps. Very dangerous. You go first."
 
Guess I'm an Oddball

If anyone ever asks me what OS I use, I never say Panther. I say 10.3.8

When it was Jaguar, I would say 10.2.6 or whatever.

Do most people use the Cat names in real conversation?
 
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