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Apple Refers to OS X as 'MacOS' in Environmental Webpage Update
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In 2012 they dropped the 'Mac' from the name and it became simply OS X.
It seems quite a few years since people stopped associating 'OS X' with 'Mac OS, version 10 point whatever-we're-on-this-year'. Hence the comments asking when OS X 11 might happen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but after 10.9, should come 11?
I assume it would be called macOS X (ten, not 'ecks' you animals).
tvOS already existed on the Apple TV, it just wasn't called such. Therefore when it was rebranded, it carried over version numbers.
It's always been inferred that OS-X is MacOS.
Now mind you, the first version of tvOS was a MacOS that was stripped down.
All the Apple OS variants have roots OS X.
Who cares what you call it? Does it matter?
Now mind you, the first version of tvOS was a MacOS that was stripped down.
All the Apple OS variants have roots OS X.
Who cares what you call it? Does it matter?
Yeah could be. But according to Wikipedia, watchOS 2.0 is based on iOS 9 (watchOS 1.0 was based on iOS 8).
Software version numbers don't follow decimal math. Didn't we already have this discussion when Yosemite came out?
this really. Some of this side stuff is geek war territory. Which they can have internally when released and they see if while Marketing calls this MacOS and OS internals wise its macOS, mac_OS or MacOS used. Marketing to people who don't go ballistic when they see code not coded to some standard (or standard they like...enter the geek war here as I have seen wars over standard and how strict to apply them) MacOS works on an ad imo.
Not needed really. the iOS covers it as its not an OS for full blown computer. Not trying to start a ipads (IPP especially) aren't real computer thread, we have many of those on these boards.
Its just IOS has historically been used to differentiate from full blown computers and devices not exactly like them. Cisco IOS for example can be complicated. It being stripped down as it were not an indication of less power. its just when you run a router you don't need it able to do everything a computer does. You slap in a router iOS since it only needs to be a router in theory so doesn't need to do anything else. this assuming pure router. inb4 cisco guru's point out to me, the admitted noob, of cisco's switch modules for routers.
Apple didn't think of the iOS first. Its an acronym used years prior for devices not full blown computers the tl;dr.
It does make sense with version numbering. With actual numbers in maths, 10.10 and 10.1 are the same, but this isn't the case with software versions.
Even if you think version numbers should work the way as decimals, they don't. OS X isn't alone in having x.9 be followed wth x.10 and then x.11
Might as well. OS X means nothing. It survived cats and beaches (sorta) but now it's just a leftover. Capitalization Standards … uhh … hmmm …
So many folks called it... I don't care what they call it, as long as it "just works" and isn't full of cranky bugs and such as the last 3 OS have been.
Seen what happens when you move away from the Big Cat names
(just kidding. I know there were problems there too.)
Seen what happens when you move away from the Big Cat names
(just kidding. I know there were problems there too.)
OH MY GOSH, are we really still having this discussion in 2016?! It is not the decimal system. It is versioning and Apple does it just like everyone else does. Educate yourselves people.
Along with the name change how about implementing these new features?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-would-you-improve-osx.1961714/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-would-you-improve-osx.1961714/
Anyone who went to Kindergarten can read Roman numerals lol
Those would be: "MacOS-Rushed to Market", "MacOS-Sadly Disappointing", and "MacOS-Should Still Be Beta"?So many folks called it... I don't care what they call it, as long as it "just works" and isn't full of cranky bugs and such as the last 3 OS have been.
Seen what happens when you move away from the Big Cat names
Maybe they could start picking bugs and use their portraits: MacOS Cockroach, MacOS Borer Beetle, MacOS Carpenter Ant, MacOS Bedbug. The Bugs are endless, kind of like the Mac OS these days.
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I've never been to kindergarten, but I was born back in MCML, when it was common not to go.
You are clearly too old to be using computers anyway so this doesn't apply to you. May I suggest a nice lawn to stand on and shout from?
Yes, but those ".1" versions usually indicate crappy little upgrades, not major.....
...never mind, maybe they'll get it together in 2016.6 or MMXVII
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Get off my lawn!
Well, if you consider Mac to be a pronoun, the capitalization standard they'd be following is English. Don't ask me about iOS. That one's just weird, and should be IOS if they followed English