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Apple Again Rumored to Announce iOS 26 Next Month
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The power struggle is real.
Engineering: Let's focus on stability! Marketing:Windows 95! OS 25!
Engineering: Let's focus on making sure it's ready! Marketing: Wall Street is making fun of us, saying we're behind!
Engineering: We need more GPU's to be ready for AI ! Marketing: Memoji's!
Engineering: Let's focus on stability! Marketing: Thinner fonts!
Engineering: Let's focus on stability! Marketing:
Engineering: Let's focus on making sure it's ready! Marketing: Wall Street is making fun of us, saying we're behind!
Engineering: We need more GPU's to be ready for AI ! Marketing: Memoji's!
Engineering: Let's focus on stability! Marketing: Thinner fonts!
Too bad Apple didn’t get acquired/got more involved with Disney - macOS Pluto. macOS Donald Duck would be perfect under this US President 😉
But wait they can use planets as OS iOS Moon and stretch a bit further macOS Jupiter etc
Apple under Tim Cook are really all the grey-variations, and there’s plenty of them.
But wait they can use planets as OS iOS Moon and stretch a bit further macOS Jupiter etc
Apple under Tim Cook are really all the grey-variations, and there’s plenty of them.
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That was the dream...
If they cannot produce car, this is as close they will get.
Moving entirely to a naming scheme like:
iOS '26
iPhone (2026)
iPhone Pro (2026)
...makes a lot of sense.
Only the software actually needs a version number so it has to be "26.0" internally, but it can easily be marketed and referred to as iOS '26 or iOS 2026.
So glad this is coming to pass. This will reduce complexity, confusion and mistakes all around. Long overdue.
I’ve been proposing this multiple times in the Mac Rumors comment threads for years.
At the same time I’ve similarly proposed a calendar year based naming scheme for apples product lines. Very much hope Apple carries through with this.
The macOS place names are nice but not memorable or easily related to year of release. They can even still be used in macOS (and, if desired, thematically extended across other OS’s) in marketing but in documentation and literature, the calendar (not generational or theme) based naming convention will make everything easier and better to work with.
This change opens up marketing opportunities as well as addressing needed improvements.
Bravo Apple. (Just don’t screw this up by not calendarizing product names).
I’ve been proposing this multiple times in the Mac Rumors comment threads for years.
At the same time I’ve similarly proposed a calendar year based naming scheme for apples product lines. Very much hope Apple carries through with this.
The macOS place names are nice but not memorable or easily related to year of release. They can even still be used in macOS (and, if desired, thematically extended across other OS’s) in marketing but in documentation and literature, the calendar (not generational or theme) based naming convention will make everything easier and better to work with.
This change opens up marketing opportunities as well as addressing needed improvements.
Bravo Apple. (Just don’t screw this up by not calendarizing product names).
This is exactly what we needed, and will undoubtedly fix all the issues with Siri.
Now do the hardware: iPhone 26, iPad 26, Watch 26, Macbook 26, Vision Pro 26, Airpods 26, AirTag 26, Pencil 26...