Yeah, but they can read. They don't stop to analyze the version number. If the box says 9.87.6572, then that's what it says. They move on happily with their lives, as everyone else should.Apple is focused more towards consumers. Consumers are dumb.
Quicktime 7.0.3.50? There have been a few isolated cases like that which went on to four places and to numbers beyond 10. The only deterministic issue is that of time. Most of Apple's update cycles are too long, and the time between major versions too short, to allow the second number even to reach 10. It has only happened once with OS X that the number even got to 9. It may be a de facto limit that arises simply out of practicality, but there is no rule capping any number in any location in a version string.3) Software updates (Mac OS, iLife, iWorks, and so on), will only go to the 3rd decimal before the second decimal is bumped-up.
That would be ludicrous. They've never done that (except in Jaguar, and that was only to replace a buggy update with a fixed one, so they both carried the same name). If there are further updates to Tiger, it will become 10.4.10 if they want to preserve any measure of consistency.I'm sure they'll continue to release updates for OS 10.4.x, but it will not change the revision number any. Perhaps the build number, but not the revision number.
Security updates and system fixes like those are released for every OS without changing the version number. There haven't been any OS updates since 10.2.8; only updates for 10.2.8 computers.And, it's still OS 10.2.8 even after being discontinued as long as it has been.