Is OSX innovated for speed or power?

[MisterMe]

They could have called it OS 10. The X represents Unix.

I was responding to a post about the name of the iPad's OS. The iPad uses a version of the iPhone's OS. The iPhone was released in 2007, some eight years after the 1999 release of MacOS X Server 1.0. MacOS X 10.0 had been released in 2001, six years prior to the release of the iPhone. The OS in the original iPhone used an early version of the code base in MacOS X 10.5.

The point is that Apple advertised the iPhone's OS as "OS X." The name "OS X" was "MacOS X" without the "Mac." By using the name "OS X," Apple made it clear that its UNIX-based OS had extended beyond the bounds of desktops, laptops, and servers. The OS would later be renamed "iPhone OS" and then shortened to "iOS" after it was ported to the iPad and TV.

I don't quite get your point about the "X" and UNIX. There is no evidence that the "X" in "MacOS X" and "OS X" has anything to do with UNIX. However, MacOS X/OS X/iPhone OS/iOS is UNIX-based.

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

The "X" in OS X has always referred to the roman numeral for 10.

As for the cat names corresponding with speed, there is no evidence for this at all. "Cheetah" was the slowest version of OS X ever, while Snow Leopard is currently the quickest. I know some people disagree, but SL on my MacBook is the fastest OS X experience I've had to date on my own personal computers.