Apple must really hate the number 7

[flowrider]

No OS that I can remember has gone above the number 6 for a point update. When the OS reaches 10.X.6 they just start to issue supplemental updates and leave the .6 untouched. Very strange IMO

OK - Let me rephrase No OS that I can remember, in the last nine years, has gone above the number 6 for a point update.

Lou

 

[ssmed]

10.6.8 mac os. One of the greats

The determination to have a new OS each year has stopped the refinement of the OS. Perhaps this will change with Big Sur?

 

[allan.nyholm]

10.4.11 too which btw was the all time great. No competition and I will fight you over it. Or perhaps just drink a cup of hot water.

 

[maverick28]

The OP said it explicitly he didn't remember Apple going beyond x.x.6 in recent 9 years, not since the days of Tiger and Snow Leopard, although I could only correct that number by cutting it down to 5 years, when the first of the x.x.6 iterations was the one for ElCapitan and they were releasing only 5 updates annually for 4 years before that. However, the whole thing does indeed look ridiculous. Of course, we know they're not going to get back to the 1.5, let alone 2 years OS development cycle: that would be too big of a concession for their users.

 

[allan.nyholm]

The OP said it explicitly he didn't remember Apple going beyond x.x.6 in recent 9 years, not since the days of Tiger and Snow Leopard,

I'm deeply sorry.

 

[ssmed]

I'm deeply sorry.

I'm not! The OP edited it after my reply (and yours). A frivolous post that deserved frivolous answers in the tradition of internet forums.