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Apple Considering Rebranding Mac OS X Under New 'iOS' Umbrella?

ivladster said:
I support renaming OS X to iOS when Mac Computers can be touch sensitive. At the moment it will make customers confused:

iPhone iOS 4
Mac iOS 10.7

Makes mac look much more advanced than 4, yet it's still not touch. Little weird.
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You are assuming the numbering scheme will stay the same. My take is it will for something like this.

iOS 4.x for Xserver
iOS 4.x for Macintosh
iOS 4.x for iPhone
iOS 4.x for iPod Touch
iOS 4.x for Mac TV

this Mac OS is replaced with iOS and all are in step with the same general release number.

Afterward, we will see all Apple products, in unison, roll-out iOS 5 for everything from handhelds to servers. Only the IT grunts will know or care about the differences one deployed.
 
This does not make sense. I think this is an intentional rumour to take away the attention from all those iPhone 4 is defective discussions.
In any case iOS is a silly replacement for the Mac OS X name.
 
Lord Vader said:
+1. Everyday is a Moron day here. Some fanboys, some haters and all are the same.
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Make that +2. This is a joke! The iOS used for the iPhone is a subset of Mac OS X, and you can't have a subset without a "set"... Merging the two makes complete sense and, speaking as a developer, it's actually a relief. What it suggests, to me, is that we may eventually be able to write for a single OS, and have it work on the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and whatever other iThing comes out in the meantime. Considering the rate at which mobile chips are improving, this seems like a very reasonable way to approach the future of the platform.
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
I'm not saying desktop Operating Systems are hard to use, although for many they are. iOS is much more approachable to novices, and an operating system expanded on that would be perfect for the general population.
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Just out of curiosity... what would you want expanded? File management? Real multitasking? Then where are we? :p
 
Like countless people in this thread (admit I didn't read the whole thread), I'm not happy to hear this kind of rumors.

I mean, Mac OS has such a long history of representing Apple's desktop operating system it would be a shame if they changed that to something else and ended that tradition. And as Steve said during the WWDC keynote about the "iOS" name, Mac OS "just rolls off the tongue" as well.


-- Mac user using Mac OS X.
 
then what ?

" iOS Desktop Series Peregrine Falcon " ?

why not just "Macintosh 2010" , "Macintosh 2012" ?
 
TuffLuffJimmy said:
Fair point. I'm not really talking about desktop OS capabilities, but user interface.
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Well we will see. I would be happy as a clam if they just at least reassured the productivity sector that they still felt they were important, and were making efforts in that area. Apple really has gone from a company for the creative pros, to a mass market consumer company. Kinda weird.

Remember when Expose seemed like such a revelation? :p

I want more like that.
 
I don't really care what they call it. I just want to be able to run my applications and access my data no matter what device I'm using. MacOS9 Apps, MacOSX Apps, iPhone Apps and all the data that goes with all of them on all devices. The iPhones are more powerful than the Macs we had ten years ago so we should be able to run everything.

It isn't the hardware,
It isn't the operating system,
It is somewhat the application,
It is very much the data that matters.
 
How short-sighted that so many people assume this means a degradation of Mac OS. Do you really think it means you will have iOS on your mac and will only be able to surf the web? Apparently many can't stretch their imagination.
 
Long Live Desktop Macs! I don't care what they call it as long as it is as productive as OSX is now!
 
ValSalva said:
i is for infantile as in dumbing down the greatest operating system ever. SJ is out of his mind. Kill the golden goose? He's lost it.
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You are aware that this is only a very vague, and as yet completely and totally unsubstantiated rumor about nothing that could matter in the slightest, are you not? Are you this melodramatic about everything?
 
archipellago said:
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so he's saying that the computer market as we know it (300 mill machines per year) will be 9 to 12 million units in the near future, everyone will replace then with portable tablet like devices.

he didn't say that PC's would be running OSX though.

remember if you disagree with iCon you are agreeing with the other Steve ;-)
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You, and others, are making the assumption that Jobs was talking about a few years for this transition, when in fact his examples cover about a hundred years. Care to speculate on the likelihood of desktop PCs in a 100 years? Jobs will be 100% correct in his vision, and even in the next 20 years the tablet will evolve to a form factor not easily imagined right now.
 
TennisandMusic said:
Well we will see. I would be happy as a clam if they just at least reassured the productivity sector that they still felt they were important, and were making efforts in that area. Apple really has gone from a company for the creative pros, to a mass market consumer company. Kinda weird.
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Actually, I have to agree. When I got involved, on a Centris 660 A/V, the Mac was a computer that basically only graphic designers and musicians used. Not that elitism is the way to go, but it would be cool if Apple put some attention toward our needs again - we did get them started, after all.

For me, it would be fantastic if they started channeling some of their multi-touch, UI innovations into their "pro" software. I mean, surely a company with so many innovative ideas about user interaction could design a more intuitive, inspiring, and interactive interface than the one used in Logic Pro. Yikes! I had Logic back when it was just a sequencer, and it wouldn't be that far fetched to say that it's changed very little since that time - at least in terms of its basic design conception.
 
till said:
Nah. Even if the next iteration of MacOS has an iOS compatibility layer, I can't see it adopting the name. The move from iPhone OS to iOS was smart. Calling two radically different things "iOS" would be terribly confusing.

"iOS Mobile", "iOS Desktop", etc. reeks of Microsoft's naming conventions.
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+1

That's the first thing I thought of when I read the story.
 
Come on people! This is a NON-ISSUE! Just hold the packaging for iOS so your thumb covers up the "i" and make an "X" with your other hand! See? It's STILL "OSX"! :D

Just because you won't be allowed to run Firefox on 10.7 iOS that doesn't mean anything has really changed! Apple has this handy new store where you can (or rather WILL) get all your "Mac" software (now called 'i' Software since there is no longer such a thing as a "Mac"). In fact, the new iMac 27" will be called the "i27". :D

It's basically a giant 27" iPad and runs the same software you are used to running on your iPhone at least until you accidentally cover the bottom left corner and the "cloud" stops raining. Hey, maybe the "white" version will be for lefties and have the blind spot on the right side? :D
 
Just one more nail in the coffin....not many more left.

Good work Steve....keep cranking those iTard devices out, so we can keep getting more fart apps.
 
I can forgive a lot. The move to intel processors, the rebranding to macbook and macbook pro's for portables, but this is not right. I could see a rebranding to straight Mac OS, but I hope to heck that this doesn't come to pass in some form.
 
My opinion: Don't do it! it's like people saying "Bling" for Mac, it's "i" It will be fun at first, but people will get burned out eventually....
 
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