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Osx 11

OSX Sounds cooler. Most people don't understand that the X=10, and that the X is only in there so it will sound cool. Thats what I thought for awhile :D
 
Zwhaler said:
OSX Sounds cooler. Most people don't understand that the X=10, and that the X is only in there so it will sound cool. Thats what I thought for awhile :D
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Most everybody I know understands Roman numerals. Especially if I correct them once.
 
dpaanlka said:
Steve Jobs. Steve Wozniak. Everybody I ever met in real life.
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yeah... um, Same here... saying "oh es ex" sounds kinda silly... since really it is the roman numeral ten.
that would be like calling superbowl thirty superbowl triple X. kinda lame.
 
thedude110 said:
I'm placing my wager on OS X II.

Then OS 12, of course ... ;)
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I hope they do that.
That sounds much, much cooler.
And I know cool. :cool:

Then you mould have to pronounce it "Oh Ess Ex two"
"Oh Ess ten two" just sounds weird. And I know weird. :p
 
dpaanlka said:
Steve Jobs. Steve Wozniak. Everybody I ever met in real life.
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I was going to say the same thing. I've never heard anyone call it Oh-es-ex.
 
Zwhaler said:
OSX Sounds cooler. Most people don't understand that the X=10, and that the X is only in there so it will sound cool. Thats what I thought for awhile :D
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I think you're in the minority there. I've never heard anyone call it anything but OS TEN.
 
celebrian23 said:
Dreaming about the next OS is hard until we're almost done with the current one.
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That as well as the fact that we haven't seen much of Leopard which is only the "half way mark" of the OS X's life make it hard to predict.
 
Given Steve's recent penchant for putting Mac in names, we might even see a return to calling the OS that runs on Macs MacOS...

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zap2 said:
When it says OS X , thats equal to OS 10

So it will be OS 11, not OS X 11
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Originally it was that way, but Apple later changed their tune and started calling it OS X 10.x. So the X is now implicitly pronounced "ecks", whereas before it was explicitly pronounced "ten".

I suspect we'll get OS X 11.0, not OS 11
 
savar said:
Originally it was that way, but Apple later changed their tune and started calling it OS X 10.x. So the X is now implicitly pronounced "ecks", whereas before it was explicitly pronounced "ten".

I suspect we'll get OS X 11.0, not OS 11
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Which Keynote address should I send you to show you that none of that is true? Steve Jobs has never said os-es-ex to describe Apple's OS. We've covered this a hundred times and I'm not gonna argue about it. What Steve says goes.
 
celebrian23 said:
January
of
2010
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No way - January of 2018-2020.

And I quote, "OS X set us up for the next 20 years" - Steve himself

(although Steve has bashed so many products, like the video iPod, and then later praised them, that his credibility is lower than some of the 'market-analysis people' out there :p )
 
I hope not. I mean it's fine now, but at some point won't they run out of cats? :p On a serious note, I don't want osx to stretch on too long. I want them to take their time completely mixing things up for os 11!
 
savar said:
Originally it was that way, but Apple later changed their tune and started calling it OS X 10.x. So the X is now implicitly pronounced "ecks", whereas before it was explicitly pronounced "ten".

I suspect we'll get OS X 11.0, not OS 11
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It's correctly stated as oh-es-ten version ten point 4 (or three or two or whatever verions you are talking about.
 
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