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Apple Likely Filed 'tvOS' Trademark for New Apple TV in November 2014

Mad Mac Maniac said:
It's interesting how while Microsoft is moving to consolodate Windows 10 across desktop, tablet, smartphone, Xbox, etc, Apple is ever expanding int more OS's. iOS, OS X, Watch OS, and now tvOS?? Sounds very cumbersome... but perhaps that's better than lumping them all into one all-encompassing OS?
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The platforms are becoming more and more similar.

But it doesn't make much sense for Apple to build one OS that does it all, when it can separate the software where it makes sense across products. After all it's selling hardware, not a does-everything-no-matter-the-device OS like Windows.

watchOS is a modified version of iOS (with watchOS 2.0 being based on iOS 9). But naturally it needs to be slimmed down, way more power efficient etc for the watch.
 
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I expect App Store to be available on the AppleTV. The name of the OS is not something the average user will ever know, so tvOS is fine, as watchOS
 
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brendu said:
I do wonder why Apple feels the need to differentiate this from iOS unless it's to create a distinction that iOS apps are not the same thing as tvOS apps.
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I'm going to guess that there is enough of a departure from iOS to warrant it. In other words, while we've long viewed :apple:TV as basically a custom app running atop iOS, I'll speculate that maybe this has enough changes in it to merit being branded as it's own thing (iOS underpinnings but meaningfully distinct layers above that such that Apple doesn't see it as a custom iOS app).

OR, maybe Apple is just tired of "i" names and this is another step toward iPhone becoming :apple:Phone, iOS becoming :apple:OS and even OS X becoming :apple:OS (oops, wait, let me rethink that). Joking aside, I suspect :apple:Phone is coming in spite of the solid, ubiquitous branding "iPhone".
 
Jsameds said:
Still better than Android version names.

Marshmallow? That's just embarrassing.
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I totally agree. I would be highly embarrassed to walk around town with a phone with a girly-named OS. "Hey, is that the new Samsung S6 Plus with the new Cherry Poptart/Sugary Lemonade/Goody Goody Gumdrop/Silly Sally Bubblegum OS installed?" :)

I shudder to wonder if Apple's OS's were stupidly named that way how trolled they would get by people here.
 
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If there's a DVR in-box, which the trademark covers, that will make it much more tempting for cord cutters.
 
brendu said:
There won't be a homeOS or healthOS as those are just systems that run inside iOS, watchOS, and soon tvOS. I do wonder why Apple feels the need to differentiate this from iOS unless it's to create a distinction that iOS apps are not the same thing as tvOS apps.
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I guess it might also stem from differentiation methods of working with/interacting with the OS. on iPod, iPhone and iPad (iOS) it is touch input with mostly a full small-device OS. The Watch is a minute OS with minimal information. And the TV is a new way if interacting without direct touch, and possibly for more landscape viewing only.

I guess that can be why, so a developer knows there is a distinct NEED to develop an app for each subset of OS...not just iOS and let it roll out. You need to understand the interaction needed for each device-setting.
 
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Apple's naming approach seems to be very simplistic with seemingly
not a lot of thought put into it. I mean, we've got the following:

• Mac OS X (now just OS X)
• iPhone OS (now iOS)
• Watch OS

Now it looks as though we'll have "TVOS". Unless they're
planning on giving it a name, but I don't think they will.
 
This changes EVERYTHING!
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Geekazoid said:
Apple's naming approach seems to be very simplistic with seemingly
not a lot of thought put into it. I mean, we've got the following:

• Mac OS X (now just OS X)
• iPhone OS (now iOS)
• Watch OS

Now it looks as though we'll have "TVOS". Unless they're
planning on giving it a name, but I don't think they will.
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so it's Device-OS. They should rename OS X into MacOS (removing the X) if they want to be consistent, since OS X runs only on Macs...
 
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