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First OS X 10.10 Banner Goes Up at Moscone Featuring Yosemite
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Does it really matter whet they call it? If it is stable, and serves the needs of the vast majority of the users, they could call it OS X Poop and what does it matter?
Anyone who's been through elementary school in the US should be able to pronounce "Yosemite." Apparently another poster in the UK was familiar with it, too. Besides, English spelling is mostly arbitrary at this point in time and these "words" don't usually get adapted into other languages without some pronunciation changes, anyway, driven by both orthography and phonotactic constraints.
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What's so special about ten versions of 10.x or 11.x?
Be a citizen of the world but have an identity, roots
I totally disagree. I believe the trend in the world for marketing is to be a citizen of the world but have an identity, have roots. Apple will actually get more respect in say China if it sells itself as being able to answer the question: "Where are you from?"
I totally disagree. I believe the trend in the world for marketing is to be a citizen of the world but have an identity, have roots. Apple will actually get more respect in say China if it sells itself as being able to answer the question: "Where are you from?"
come on.. we're lazy interneters ..
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I knew the pronunciation of 'Yosemite' from the old Warner Brothers cartoons but didn't make an association with the written word 'Yosemite', which I was familiar with from National Graphic (or similar publications) before the B&W G3 was given the codename.
Those Loony Tunes cartoons haven't been broadcast in the UK since some time in the 1980s. Too much violence, too much of what is now considered racism, etc etc. I think the word 'Yosemite' will be unfamiliar to the large majority of the UK population under the age of forty.
Not that I care: I've never got into the habit of referring to OS X versions by anything other than number. It was good enough for Apple until 9.2.2...
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Wait, there are going to be new features?!?
Definitley. I love the river that runs through the park too. I swam there once but the water is very cold lol
No, you are NOT the minority.
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I believe you got it correct. I know for sure it's not Redwood.
Why change the name just to change it? Unless they rewrite a large portion or completely change the UI it won't be enough to differentiate it as a completely new OS. Plus Steve Jobs said OS X would last 20 or so years. It's nothing surprising.
I think it's because we've never seen double digit version yet. So 10.10 looks weird to us. And how the hell are they going to 11? Will Cook kill OS X like Jobs did with 9?
Or are we so perfect with ten (X) or to damaged as Americans to embrace 11?
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And if you want to get symbolic there are two sides to that mountain.
So
10.10
Or
11
Why doesn't it follow mathematically again? I keep seeing people say 10.10 is acceptable for a version number but does that not bother the living **** out of everyone else? 10.10 = 10.1
It isn't correct - and it also just shows that they're not ready to do anything major with the platform and are just shoving another point update in.
I really have never understood the whole spoiler topic thing, but it makes even less sense to me now that Apple is streaming these events live.
well, Spanish but...
That's the joke. The guy said it would be hard for non-English speakers and one of the proposed names wasn't even English.
Mountain lion is also a small cat. The classification does not really refer to size.
Californians may love California, and talking about how they're from California, but the rest of the country generally does not have a positive feeling about California. The rest of the world probably doesn't get the references, or sees California culture as a threat to their own cultures.
They should have gone with, well, anything else. Mavericks is a stupid, confusing name. Yosemite may finally teach people how to pronounce it properly (it's four syllables, FYI), but it's really our worst national park. Beautiful from afar, maybe, but it's a smog-filled valley overcrowded with tourists ignoring the scared and sickly wildlife whose habitats have become parking lots for endless streams of smelly buses. Sequoia would've been a better image to associate with. Well, at least it wasn't Death Valley.
