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macOS Emerald to macOS Big Bear: What Will Apple Name macOS 27?

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Back in the big cat days, there was intrigue and fun to guess what the next name will be universally.
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No, there wasn’t, because Apple usually announced those code names long, long, long in advance.
Panther was pretty much known immediately after Jaguar was released, Apple announced Tiger as the name literally during the WWDC04 invitations, Leopard’s name was announced 2 1/2 years before it actually released, and over a year and two months before it was even first demoed or released in beta.
Same with snow leopard, the name was known within six months of Leopard’s release and over a year and a half before it released.
Lion, again another situation where Apple literally announced the name within the press invitations.
Literally, the only version of a big cat release that wasn’t known years in advance was mountain lion, and that one was a surprise drop on Apple‘s website in a random day in February.
It wasn’t until they switched the names to California landmarks that they began being quite secretive about it, with the names usually not leaking until a day or two before WWDC.
 
I'm stuck between macOS Emerald (Emerald Bay) since it is within Lake Tahoe, macOS Shasta, but also for some reason I think macOS Jade Cove (I could've sworn it would've been chosen as the successor to Big Sur because Jade Cove is within Big Sur). I remember back in 2013 I predicted macOS Big Sur and macOS Tahoe would be names that would end up being used, so let's see if any of these guesses end up being chosen hehe. 😸
 
Royksöpp said:
For a Snow Lepaord release, the only neighboring parks are Emerald Bay and Van Sickle. unless they plan to use one that is further away.

Emerald is quite lovely.

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I've got a feeling that you might be right.

Sure, it's another lake but for a 'snow leopard' release i.e. the optimisation release after leopard (as macOS 27 is heavily rumoured to be), it would be thematic.
 
Reads the headline: come on now, Apple isn’t going to name Mac OS after the emerald triangle…
Reads the article: ohhhh, ok then. That makes sense.
LOL
 
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I care less about the name and more about what joke Craig is going to make implicating the naming team as a traveling band of stoners.
 
I like Mac OS Emerald. Since I'm not from the US, I don't know anything related to California and it places so, for me is the same which name ended as the chosen one. But for now, Emerald sounds good.

Also, I would like to see more landscape wallpapers instead those digital ones.. Catalina was the last mac OS to shows a landscape wallpaper by default.
 
Emerald reminds me too much of The Wizard of Oz or Wicked...or the birthstone color. I don't think of the place in California (never heard of it). Is it just me?
 
I like Diablo, mostly because Mt. Diablo is one of the tallest peaks in the Bay Area and Apple tends to ignore anything that's inland and not in or near the Sierras. Skyline works because it's a famous winding mountain road in the Peninsula. Shasta's pretty cool as it's really tall and is a dormant volcano. Other than that, why not use one of the bodies of water, like the Sacramento or San Joaquin River? Or Delta?
 
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