Sonoma and sequoia have several animated “stunning wallpapers”To be honest, I don't really care about the name, I wish they would bring back stunning wallpapers and not some generic "artwork"
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macOS Tiburon to macOS Pacific: Which Name Will Apple Use This Year?
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macOS Joshua Tree... and it will include a re-mastering of an album by a well known musical group...
Please, whatever else, choose a name that is reasonably easy for those of us in the rest of the world to pronounce?
Some of those I wouldn't know where to start!
Some of those I wouldn't know where to start!
Especially if the rumored redesign is true. The first version of a new look is always a mess. With that and iOS 19, it’s going to be like iOS 7 and Big Sur all over again!
Pacific would be apt if the rumoured UI redesign is significant.
Although if the idea is that the redesign enables each platform to finally bridge to each other (if google can produce material you expressive for smartphone, tablet watch and web, I’m sure apple is capable of doing something similar), macOS golden gate might be apt.
hehe, the last name Apple would pick. The bugs are necessary to remind us nothing is perfect
People have a way too rosy view of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Plus it left many with perfectly fine and relatively new PPC Macs stranding.
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I’m reading East of Eden. How about “Salinas”.
Every year heading into WWDC, one thought on many Mac fans' minds is what Apple will choose as the name for the next version of macOS. The tradition dates all the way back to the beginning of Mac OS X with its big cat names like Leopard, and Apple shifted to California-themed names with the unveiling of OS X Mavericks in 2013.
Back in 2014, we discovered more than 20 California-themed trademark applications filed by various limited-liability companies, which were all but certain to be shell companies created by Apple to hide its identity. Over time, some of the trademarks like Yosemite, Sierra, Mojave, Monterey, Mojave, Ventura, Sonoma, and Sequoia were indeed used as macOS names, while trademark applications for other names were abandoned.
Apple has still proceeded to use some of the names with abandoned trademark filings as macOS names, such as Big Sur in 2020. So, there is still a possibility that macOS 16 will use one of the names that Apple had filed to protect many years ago.
Here is a list of the remaining macOS name possibilities that Apple had filed to protect:
Apple's trend of using Tiburon in iPhone marketing images in recent years has led some fans to speculate that macOS 16 could be named macOS Tiburon, but this is obviously far from concrete evidence. Indeed, it was once a trademarked name, though.
- California
- Condor
- Diablo
- Farallon
- Grizzly
- Mammoth
- Miramar
- Pacific
- Redtail
- Redwood
- Rincon
- Shasta
- Skyline
- Tiburon
Of course, there is no guarantee that Apple will ever use any of these names. It is simply fun to think about the possibilities each year.
WWDC 2025 begins on Monday, June 9.
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Stuffed with all the Apple Intelligence features they failed to put in the current version.
I remember it being fairly stable but a quite weird release.
Originally it was the last classic ‘os x’ UI release before lion incorporated elements from iOS - rubber banding, launch pad, iOS style scrolling etc.
But I seem to remember that eventually it had the first release of the Mac App Store too, which kicked off the next phase of OS X.
So yeah, it wasn’t exactly the ‘no features!’ Release that we all remember it being.