For Fun: Names After Leopard?

[kgarner]

"MacOS Unicorn? MacOS Sasquatch? MacOS Chupathingy. How about that. It's got a ring to it."

Mac OS X Chupacabra would rock! I also like Mac OS Nessie and Mac OS Yeti.

 

[Makosuke]

Umm, hmm, I hate to burst your bubble there, but you must have missed out; OS X 10.1 was Puma.

Apple's been there and done that.

Yes, I'm aware, and 10.0 was laughably code named Cheetah, but neither of those monikers ever made it into the wild (pun intended), so Apple could easily re-use them in public now without any mention of the heritage--I doubt more than 1% of Apple's market ever reads rumor sites, and only a fraction of those will remember the old code names.

I agree that Apple may not ever use Lion--for some reason it just sounds funny as a nickname for an OS, and my non-techie wife agrees, though neither of us are quite sure why. Too monolithic of an image, perhaps?

Would open the floodgates on bad Lion King puns, though, so it wouldn't be all bad.