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Apple ain't deciding my future. I currently use Mac OS X because i like it, it's better than Windows and I like its workflow (as well as I like Ubuntu's workflow too); and I use iOS 4 on my iPhone 3GS because I have to... not because I want to... hence... I jailbreak it to improve that functionality that Apple thinks ain't good for me.

The day that Apple turns the mac computing platform into an ios-based (aka... your description...), I will stop using it. I don't want to be told what apps I am allowed to run neither I need to help a company increase its annual profit, if I want to code an app for myself, I will do it, and I will approve it and sell however I want if I consider selling it... but...

I am sorry, but this is the beginning of the end, even if Apple doesn't change the name, what's important here is that the idea is there... and I am sure is not an idea from yesterday...
Apple has (lately) focused its efforts on its iProducts... and that's a fact... the mac platform is updated regularly but it seems Apple doesn't care anymore...
Since when does a name change mean Apple will suddenly change the entire OS? :rolleyes:

Heck, iOS is basically Mac OS X.

It's called advertising, people.
 
If OS X turns into something like iOS with forced App Store and content control, I'm out.
 
It gives the wrong impression.

The "iOS" gives the impression of an 'OS Lite', but a Mac OSX is a full fledge OS. You're making it sound like you're crippling an OS when it's not.

Imagine if Microsoft called their next OS "Windows 8 Mobile". You'd think it was a flimsy mobile device OS. Same thing here.

Are you also saying that people think the iMac is a crippled mobile device because of its name?
 
Do not **** with the name Apple, just don't. The Mac is an icon, for the love of God, it is what your company is supposed to be all about. :(

You can drop the "X" from OS X and call it Mac OS 10.7...I always thought Mac OS X 10.x was a clunky, since you're basically supposed to be repeating "ten" twice, but you don't. :p

Anyone remember the rumour Mac OS X was supposed to be rebranded simply "OS X"? It was posted here months ago.
 
Seems like a decent idea to keep the range nice and simple for new users with less confusing names. It will also pave the way for the convergence of the two OS's as the iPad and Mac evolve into each other.
You really think that Jobs and his software architects are misguided enough to try that? They spent a whole lot of time and effort to develop iOS as something very different from OS X, because - as they pointed out over and over - the MS approach of putting a desktop UI on a phone or a tablet was a dud. People interact with handhelds differently than they do with a desktop/laptop. These devices have different uses and will therefore run different software. Putting the iOS UI on a laptop or the OS X UI on a tablet would be like putting a steering wheel on a motorcycle, or handlebars on a car.

If Apple tried to converge the iPad and the Mac, they'd have something which was neither fish nor fowl, and would neither swim nor fly.
 
This whole thing seems a bit meta, with iOS taking its name from the rebranded iOS, which itself was named to reference but differentiate itself from the desktop OSX, which now might end up with the iOS branding............
 
Jinkies, guys - stop getting so bloomin' aggravated over this. It would be a name change. They're not going to be loading their mobile OS onto the next macs - they'll just be changing the name.

It was expected to happen - OS X can't last forever, and moving to a name that more people recognise would be a smart move. Again, this doesn't mean they're gonna be loading their mobile OS onto macs - it'll just be changing the name.
 
Frankly, I'm ALREADY getting very upset that Apple is too focused strictly on the iPod/iPad/iPhone side of things to such an extent that they have been WOEFULLY NEGLECTFUL of Mac and Mac OS.
Look, I'm sick of the iPhone and the iPad, too, but for the life of me I can't see where Mac and its OS is being WOEFULLY NEGLECTED. I mean, which part of said hardware/software combination is crapping out on me again?
 
Hybrid OS!

Looks like a lot of people disappointed with this news. From my own understanding the iOS will run on top of the layer of Mac OSX. What's the difference nothing just an extra OS running on top of OSX maybe the UI looks like the current iOS. What I'm hoping Apple would do is to make that iOS installed separate drive then when you boot-up it's instantaneous like the iPhone. Pretty much you can do basic like email, web browsing or watch videos , listen to music and browse photos. Now when you like to run your Photoshop the OSX kicks-in and starts booting-up from the second drive.
 
If OS X turns into something like iOS with forced App Store and content control, I'm out.

There is no way in hell Apple would ever do something like this. They aren't dumb, they know it would be the end of the Mac platform and people would jump ship.

Besides, Steve already denied there would be an App Store of any kind in 10.7, so why would a name change (which I am against as well) make him go back on his word?
 
well Apple doesnt need to market OS X. it doesnt need ot be purchased unless you own a mac and you are running an older OS, BUT if thats the case there is no competition as to what operating system you will buy next so there is no need to market OSX. Ive never seen an OS X commercial, they surely dont talk about it in Apple commercials. It makes absolutely no difference what the call it... only Apple fanboys care. the general public does not. if you talk to someone on the street and tell them you run OS X, they wont know what you are talkin about. If you tell them you use Mac, then they know. if they are a windows PC user, than OS X is not an option for them without buying a Mac so therefore there is no reason for them to need to know what OS X is.

No one calls it MAc OS Ex. We all say OS 10 with the version number after (10.5 or 10.6 etc.) the X is redundant. Mac OS Ex 10? in the mac world we just say the name of the cat. "oh this is running Snow Leopard".

This is a non-issue.
 
I seriously doubt this will happen. I also think apple will continue to keep OS X alive for quite a while. But if they did merge ios and os x I would turn away from apple and never look back.
 
I'm not a huge fan of the idea, but if they were going to do this, I would see them doing it either when they run out of decimals (e.g. up to OS X 10.9, then iOS Desktop) or upon the 10th anniversary of OS X 10.0. "Ten years of X." Which would be in March of 2011, if you don't count server versions of X.

There not going to run out of decimals. They can do OS X 10.10, 10.11, etc. They can keep the X as long as they want.
 
Apple can stick with "version 10" as long as they like. After 10.9 comes 10.10, 10.11, etc. These aren't decimals; they're version numbers, which can go as high as the developer wants them to.

Yeah, but users don't typically understand that, and it can look a bit strange. Internally, version numbers can be handled however you like. But the public version number is an important piece of marketing.
 
I seriously doubt this will happen. I also think apple will continue to keep OS X alive for quite a while. But if they did merge ios and os x I would turn away from apple and never look back.

Once again, iOS is based on Mac OS X. No where in this article did in state that Apple plans on changing the entire Mac OS, only the name. Just like how Apple went from calling it System to Mac OS.
 
I knew it, knew it, knew it! Apple's excuse "well we use the iPhone OS on the iPad too, so let's just get rid of anything that makes it sound like a mobile OS anymore" just wasn't doing it for me... they could have named it so many other things. This along with other past rumors from before iOS about more closely integrating with OS X makes it seem really likely.

Will the renaming be a bad thing or a good thing? It could mean more touch-screen desktops and laptops, or it could mean absolutely nothing, just a unifying name change and nothing more. We'll have to wait and see.
 
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