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No iOS 19: Apple Going Straight to iOS 26

smaffei said:
Agreed. In fact, Microsoft got away from the year naming scheme because it unintentionally accentuated how long they were taking between major OS updates. Windows 95-> Windows 98 -> Windows Millennium Edition.

I think this new naming scheme is a monumentally bad idea.
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The funny thing is they copied OS X with Windows 10 and said they will never change the number. Then Apple changed it to macOS 11.
 
I might be in the fringe minority, but it would have been better to have a full year in the name. iOS 2026. This would break the association with the prior one-two digit naming scheme. Also, since they are moving to a year-based naming, will updates be named in relation to months or just reflecting the order? 26.5 - is it a May update or the fifth of the year?
 
and it won't probably be heavily branded as iOS 26, iOS 27 like Windows 95 or Adobe Photoshop 2024, it'll probably be more of a backend reference than anything else. I see it being marketed as iOS, macOS. Because Apple already does this with their products Mac Studio (2022), MacBook Pro (2023) but its not appended into the product name entirely.
 
3xBoom said:
I might be in the fringe minority, but it would have been better to have a full year in the name. iOS 2026. This would break the association with the prior one-two digit naming scheme. Also, since they are moving to a year-based naming, will updates be named in relation to months or just reflecting the order? 26.5 - is it a May update or the fifth of the year?
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Not sure how they will do theirs, but ours seems to work pretty well although the devs including myself hated it when we first changed it. The user visible version is the full year - 2026 in this case, and then each update is just a sequential Update 1, Update 2, etc. For the actual file versions, the year and month are combined into a single number that is the major version. For example 2026 in our case would be 2609 since we release in September. Then each update is a .version, so 2609.0.1, 2609.0.2, etc. Just a little useless info for everyone lol.
 
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I thought this was a joke but it’s just a Bloomberg report so basically the same tbing

Kidding aside I get the logic but why 26? If it comes out this year shouldn’t it be 25?

Also visionOS skipping all the way to 26 from 2 is wild
 
That’s how long it will take to get the bugs out of iOS 18 and fix the ever present battery issues..
 
Hey Apple now that you’re on a unification kick how bout allowing TRUE cross platform app usage???

And while you’re at it allow MacOS to run on all M series iPads….

….,Ooo but then a good number of people would stop buying MacBooks and only have iPads not both devices. Novel idea improving useability, efficiency and saving users money..
 
Mac and iPhone/iPad users in the year 2069 are going to have a fun time with this, I'm sure.
 
Hate to say it but it actually makes sense when compared to the other products' OS number, like WatchOS and visionOS. Would look nicer for sure
 
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