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Apple Again References 'MacOS', This Time on Developer Website
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Yeah, surprised there was not more push back on that. I am particularly tired of "el Capitan"--blech!
Mac at least deserves a capital M. It should not be made lowercase just to match the names of the mobile OSes.
They purposefully chose the X, because it also refers to UNIX and NeXTStep. ‘Mac OS X’ was a reference to its dual heritage, as well as a clean break with the 10 major release version. ‘macOS’ destroys that connotation and the only obvious link to it is watchOS (and to a lesser extent also iOS).
I might be remembering this wrong, but when iOS first came out, wasn't it based somewhat on the code of OS X?
Looks like the reference has been changed back to OS X. Really seems like a controlled leak, to see if anyone is paying attention 
I think macOS is fine, it woudn't hurt apple to be a little more consistent. I would like it if they stopped doing yearly releases and have much less focus on the actual version number, like a number of other software projects have done. This would allow them to release things when they are ready and not wait for a year to release something or rush something thats not really ready. I think they should also break apart the OS from the rest of their apps. If we don't use them, we wouldn't need to install them.
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I don't think that's necessarily a logical progression. Their watchOS doesn't run on the appleWatch. And tvOS doesn't run on the appleTV... They're not really direct comparisons, because those products use the more recent "Apple" prefix, but even so, just because they might rename it to macOS doesn't imply their product naming must also change, since it didn't in those other cases.
(Edited to remove unintended snarkiness!)
If they really DID rename it to that, yes, I do think people would complain. With legitimate reason! haha
Assuming that's sarcastic, since they are just talking about changing the name, nothing about changing the UI to be different or more iOSish in anyway.
We could get the Apple Book, Apple Book Pro, Apple Mac, Apple Mac Pro, Apple Mini and Apple Phone to fit the current product naming.
At the iPhone announcement Steve Jobs explicitly said "iPhone runs OS X." And while it has since been branded as iOS it's still largely true – it shares a great deal with OS X including the XNU kernel, many frameworks and the vast bulk of under-the-hood infrastructure. In fact it's so similar that iOS apps run directly on OS X with just a bit of additional framework support provided by the iPhone Simulator.
In terms familiar to the Linux crowd, OS X and iOS are just "distros" of the same core operating system. They target wildly different hardware and have different "window managers" but the beating heart underneath is substantially the same.
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That's certainly in your opinion, as all the things you note above are postive for the majority of people.You may not like subscriptions, but for the majority of users, we want great high quality apps and that's not sustainable when people are only paying a small one time fee. The change just allows more categories to have subscriptions and also allows developers to keep more of the revenues rather than apple after a year, which is a major positive.
The average user does not download/buy music, they stream any song they want whenever they want on their favorite streaming service, and being directed to buy a song, when its available for for free in the same app is more confusing. If iTunes ends downloads (which won't be for a long time anyway, I don't think anyone will mind your choosing to spend hundrends buying cds rather than 9.99 a month for unlimited music.
Music has died? Culture has died? Hardware and software have atrophied? Not sure what world you are living in but it's certainly not the same one the rest of us are. I feel very sorry for you as the rest of us of the world who most likely say the opposite, that nothing is static, and everything is changing and improving to quickly and they instead wish things were static.
