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Pinot -> Panther
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Originally posted by theaz
here are the cat species that I am aware of:
African golden cat
baby cat
black-footed cat
bobcat
Canada lynx
caracal
cheetah
clowded leopard
Eurasian lynx
fishing cat
flat-headed cat
Geoffroy's cat
Iberian lynx
jaguar
jaguarundi
jungle cat
kodkod
leopard (= panther)
lion
margay
mountain cat
ocelot
oncilla
pampas cat
puma (= mountain lion = cougar)
rusty spotted cat
sand cat
serval
snow leopard
Temminck's golden cat
tiger
wild cat
Have I missed anything obvious? At my count, this means that Apple could keep going all the way to Mac OS X 13.1 using non-synonymous big cat names alone (and assuming 0.1 releases each timeI think the name "wild cat" is a pretty good one myself.
Note amnesiac1984 & StuPid QPid: A panther is a type of leopard not jaguar although mistakes regarding its identity are made not infrequently.
Actually that many names would take the system much further because as far back as I can remember Apple has never released a system greater then x.6 with x.5 being the most common cap.
And on another poiont I think the Pinot wine name was to uppity and elitist for a down to earth easy to use for every body system like Mac OSX. Unless they don't plan on using it in marketing like Jaguar.
The problem is you are one of the few that understand that and I can rescpect that. Most people do not know what Pinot even is or even care about wine.
I'm not trying to start a fight I'm just trying to explain this. I myself am not infatuated with wine though here in Oregon we have a large number of very fine vineyards with what I'm told is very good wine on par with most of the world.
since we are all talking about codenames doesnt anyone think its odd apple has been so public with the jaguar codename. i mean how many people know that 10.0 was cheetah. 10.1 was puma. we toss around hardware names occasionally too but none of those have been publicized either. pismos wallstreet lombard, sawtooth. you dont see those names on the sides of boxes or on apples website.
i wonder why apple decided to use jaguar. will this be a new trend? or did apple just think selling 'jaguar' would be easier than 10.2¿
i wonder why apple decided to use jaguar. will this be a new trend? or did apple just think selling 'jaguar' would be easier than 10.2¿
why they use Jaguar instead of 10.2
I don't really know for sure why they decided to use a code name this time... seems kinda wierd to me as well.
But, I'm pretty sure it was just to get publicity so that it would bolster the switch campaign. It's somewhat of a catchy name, so people who don't know macs would get interested and ask about it... then maybe want to try/buy it.
I don't recall very many instances of companies using code names to sell their software (Os's for that matter) and I'm guessing that not using the code name is the norm. Thus, Apple breaks the norm (like it has in the past) and calls attention to itself. This could be good or bad (more likely good), but I'm guessing that there will be more software/OS's (MS?) that are publicized or maybe even sold under code names in the near future.
-- Bert
ps. oh yeah, I seem to remember that macs are popular among women... the new furry skin of the "X" logo resembles the texture/print of certain car seat covers... my wife's highschool convertable had a set, along with alot of her friends' cars
And you know they would need a reason to put that print/texture on the logo...
I don't really know for sure why they decided to use a code name this time... seems kinda wierd to me as well.
But, I'm pretty sure it was just to get publicity so that it would bolster the switch campaign. It's somewhat of a catchy name, so people who don't know macs would get interested and ask about it... then maybe want to try/buy it.
I don't recall very many instances of companies using code names to sell their software (Os's for that matter) and I'm guessing that not using the code name is the norm. Thus, Apple breaks the norm (like it has in the past) and calls attention to itself. This could be good or bad (more likely good), but I'm guessing that there will be more software/OS's (MS?) that are publicized or maybe even sold under code names in the near future.
-- Bert
ps. oh yeah, I seem to remember that macs are popular among women... the new furry skin of the "X" logo resembles the texture/print of certain car seat covers... my wife's highschool convertable had a set, along with alot of her friends' cars
And you know they would need a reason to put that print/texture on the logo...
Definitions
Jaguar = inspired British engineering flair, used by pimps, police and gangsters, needs regular servicing......???
Jaguar = inspired British engineering flair, used by pimps, police and gangsters, needs regular servicing......???
The other problem is that, here in the Bay Area you learn more about wines than most people in the rest of the country ever know or want to just from radio advertisements. It didn't and wouldn't surprise me, because it might not occur to someone who's lived here a long time that wine references would be lost on most people.