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macOS Tiburon to macOS Pacific: Which Name Will Apple Use This Year?
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How about macOS Eubetia bigaulae (pronounced as OO-be-TEE-ah bee-GA-luh-ee)? 😂
Honestly, macOS Agra cadabra (almost like Abracadabra) would be pretty
They should switch to the planets. I really, really, want the first version to be Uranus.
WAKKA WAKKA!
WAKKA WAKKA!
There are too many names to remember already. They should get rid of the names and bump the version number up by 2 to match iOS.
I hope they use Farallon (islands off the SF Coast)...I used to work for the company named after the islands (Farallon Computing, Inc.)...Mac Centric networking products (PhoneNET, Timbuktu, etc.).
They used Ventura, why not just go south a few counties and name it macOS Vista 🤣
I just wish they would drop the names and go back to simply numbering the releases. If they insist on keeping names, I wish they would always follow the version numbers, not replace them in all marketing materials and communication. Frankly, I’ve better things to remember than the order of the names to know which version came before or after another one!
So I suppose you can put me in the group of people who don’t care for a second what the name will be…
So I suppose you can put me in the group of people who don’t care for a second what the name will be…
This article needs to be linked to every time someone goes off about the “Bug free” Snow Leopard.
“In fact, Snow Leopard was quite buggy, and Mac OS X 10.6.0 was certainly much buggier than Mac OS X 10.5.8, released a few weeks prior.”
In fact, I’d argue when it comes to new features and changes, modern updates like Monterey and Sequoia are significantly smaller than the jump from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
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Considering the new GUI is going to use transparency, it should appropriately named:
macOS 16 Jellyfish
macOS 16 Jellyfish
I vote for Tiburon since I live about 3 miles away from the town
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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