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Apple's Future OS X Names May Include Yosemite, Mammoth, Big Sur, Redwood, Pacific, and More
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If this is true... I'm not impressed. Too geographically specific to be interesting. Yosemite, maybe... Mavericks is good is because of it's second meaning. But for the most part it just feels like a bunch of inward looking folks trying to convince the rest of the world they live in a cool place. California, while nice, doesn't quite have the same 'cool factor' that it used. And, according to a report on MR - about 66% of Apples sales are international. The Big Cats were a global naming scheme.
That said... I wonder if there aren't a couple of other shell companies trademarking places names from the around the world. That is something I could get interested in.
That said... I wonder if there aren't a couple of other shell companies trademarking places names from the around the world. That is something I could get interested in.
OS X Barstow wouldn't bee a good sign.
Just after that would be OS X Bat Country. It doesn't stop there.
Cue, not queue.
They're strings separated by a delimiter, not numbers.
OS X Deathstar. That would be a good un"
I would buy the ***** out of that. I know, it's a free upgrade. I'll pay $30 for it.
To be fair, the name is the last thing I'm thinking about while I'm using it.
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Sure... right after OSX Google
I prefer OSX Netscape.
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OS X you are getting old no matter what pseudo name Apple gives you! It's like a women saying she's 27 every birthday when you know she's north of 30 and fooling no one!
Apple it's time to move on from X. Give 'Z' a try?!?
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Apple it's time to move on from X. Give 'Z' a try?!?
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And probably go on a Cougar hunt, there are many of them around this part of the woods
Not in terms of versioning.
Now if you are using numbers for arithmetics then you are correct.
OS X you are getting old no matter what pseudo name Apple gives you! It's like a women saying she's 27 every birthday when you know she's north of 30 and fooling no one!
Apple it's time to move on from X. Give 'Z' a try?!?
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I think Apple's having a hard time getting rid of that cool X. By most normal versioning standards, which up the number after any huge architectural changes, OSX should be OSXII by this point at least. The big Intel switch should've been OSXI, and Lion should've been XII.
Usually the numbers represent big change dot little change dot bug fixes.
Problem is if Apple gets a trademark for one of these places, then some scammer will notice and try to get trademarks for other names as quick as possible, and Apple has to pay out. And Apple doesn't have any rights to get a trademark for "Yosemite", for example, just because they are a big company.
I don't know if I count, as I'm only in the UK and not too far away, but Mavericks is as easy to remember as any big cat name.
How come OSX gets cool cat & place-names, while iOS is still using version numbers alone? I wanna upgrade to iOS Butterfly Or maybe it should be named after smaller places (since it's a 'mini' mobile OS)... iOS Cucamonga?
Or maybe it should be named after smaller places (since it's a 'mini' mobile OS)... iOS Cucamonga?
For them to get a trademark on a physical location and have it stick against Apple, they'd have to make an OS, and have a version to cover every famous landmark and tourist attraction in California.
We've found a bunch more:
- Diablo, Miramar, Rincon, and El Cap (Landmark Associates LLC)
- Redtail, Condor, and Grizzly (Cassowary Devices LLC)
- Farallon, Tiburon, and Monterey (Asilomar Enterprises LLC)
- Skyline, Shasta, and Sierra (Antalos Apps LLC)
- Diablo, Miramar, Rincon, and El Cap (Landmark Associates LLC)
- Redtail, Condor, and Grizzly (Cassowary Devices LLC)
- Farallon, Tiburon, and Monterey (Asilomar Enterprises LLC)
- Skyline, Shasta, and Sierra (Antalos Apps LLC)
Maybe Apple is still a couple of years away from releasing 11 because it's the version that merges/integrates OSX and iOS.
