Recent Trademark Filings Hint at Possible Names for macOS 10.14 - Mojave, Sequoia, Ventura or Sonoma

My vote is for Sequoia.....

As I type on my iPad I am sitting out on my deck overlooking Lake Sequoia (a small manmade lake in the DC suburbs that has townhouses and condominium apartments surrounding it).
 
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MacOS Mojave, not a bad name. But I'm sure it will be mispronounced by almost everyone in the tech community.
konqerror said:
Mojave is a great name. The platform has been deserted.
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Somewhere deep in the Mojave desert, buried underneath the sand, lies the unreleased 2017 Mac mini...
 
Soba said:
I immediately thought of this campaign, myself. And today's Apple is just clueless enough to pick this name.
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Mojave is a good choice and a 10 year old little psychology experiment that Microsoft did should not be a concern. If anything it showed that the reaction to the name Mojave was positive.
 
CerebralX said:
Please just make it easy to pronounce!
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Sequoia's not hard to pronounce ;)
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Morod said:
Sequoia!
PS… It's also the shortest word with all 5 vowels used in it.
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Lol. Took a quiz in class one year and found that out too. Crazy how I've had the name all my life and didn't know before that lol
[doublepost=1527314203][/doublepost]Crazy I was talking to an Apple employee a few days ago and told her they eventually have to name a MAC OS X Sequoia. It's only right since they're naming them mostly after trees.
 
‘So our product marketing experts went exploring again and got completely baked under the hot desert sun. In more ways than one.

So baked in fact, that they couldn’t come up with any new features. They just messaged us back pictures of a barren and deserted landscape - and bugs. So many bugs.

This being so, we present macOS Mojave!’

P.S. I’m sure it’s going to be a great release, Apple. Just kidding around :D
 
Out of the registered ones I like Sequoia but also one which might be hard for non natives to pronounce, the one I also like is Ipanah which is easier.

CarlJ said:
Every name they've used so far has been easy to pronounce.
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No, not for non Americans, yosemite is quite hard, most people in Europe pronounce it wrong, I have colleagues and friends which went there, they mostly got it wrong.

Pronunciation should be yo-se-mi-ti while many here think it's jose´-my-te.



AppleFanatic10 said:
Sequoia's not hard to pronounce ;)
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Lol. Took a quiz in class one year and found that out too. Crazy how I've had the name all my life and didn't know before that lol
[doublepost=1527314203][/doublepost]Crazy I was talking to an Apple employee a few days ago and told her they eventually have to name a MAC OS X Sequoia. It's only right since they're naming them mostly after trees.
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You grew up the US, it's a place where millions of people go each and every year, probably one of the most important in the states, you heard of Sequoia since you were young, most people outside of the states don't know Sequoia so for them it's not easy to pronounce the name if they never heard of it.
However if they did it's not that difficult, same was true for Yosemite.
 
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I don't care about the name. As most people state I'd like some squished bugs. I can't even use the latest version of HS because it destroys DisplayLink drivers and it's unresolved as yet.

Command P crashes any app I use, native or no, since release. I've done everything i can to eliminate the issue.

Just defies reason when they make tv shows but don't master the things they are already doing.
 
I can’t believe no one else suggested MacOS WeHo. Backgrounds include the vast ranges of tents in tent city and pictures of that “film star” who just got the key to WeHo...

“The new MacOS - Less secure and laden with viruses!”

“The MacOS with an exploited backdoor!”

“MacOS - GIMME ALL YOUR MONEY!!”

“MacOS - use your back button... QUICK!”
 
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I’ll take literally anything over High Sierra. I thought it was a joke when they announced it last year. Mojave is a great name. They better deliver on the wallpaper.
 
justperry said:
No, not for non Americans, yosemite is quite hard, most people in Europe pronounce it wrong, I have colleagues and friends which went there, they mostly got it wrong.

Pronunciation should be yo-se-mi-ti while many here think it's jose´-my-te.
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You're conflating "easy to pronounce" with "easy to guess how to pronounce". You've demonstrated in your last sentence that Yosemite is quite easy to pronounce: "yo-se-mi-ti". Four very easy to pronounce syllables (I might have written "yoh-seh-mih-tee"). Hard to pronounce would be something with seven consonants in a row, or trilled "R"s (quite challenging if you haven't learned from an early age), or clicks that one must make while simultaneously saying the letter.

English is an amalgam of other languages, and US English moreso. Many place names in the southwestern US come from Spanish, or various Native American languages (since those are the groups that got here first and named everything). The answer to you not being familiar with the attendant pronunciation rules shouldn't be "let's not use those words", rather, simply, become familiar with a few of the rules, or if you're confronted with just a few words, simply memorize the pronunciation for those words and move on. You've already done it for thousands of other words. Continually mispronouncing a name after having heard, in reply, the correct pronunciation, lands somewhere between silly and obstinate.

I'll give you a hint about your assertion that, "it's hard for non Americans": the US is a big place, many US residents who aren't from the Southwestern parts, don't know how to pronounce the Spanish-influenced names either. No matter - if they visit, they learn quickly enough. For example, "j" often sounds like "h" with a bit of emphasis, so "Mojave" is pronounced mo-HAH-vee. They're all simple, easy-to-pronounce sounds. Similarly, one of the nearby cities, "El Cajon" is pronounced "el kuh-HONE", not "el KAY-jun". Still, easy to pronounce.

"Sequoia" is easy enough to pronounce as well: seh-kwoy-uh. If you didn't know how to pronounce it, now you do.

(Plus, most of these are 3 or 4 simple syllables. It's not like they're confronting you with "macOS
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch".)

Apple is going out of their way to teach the world a bit about California - your response seems a bit like "Mojave is too hard, we don't like learning, let's call it macOS Spoon because that doesn't hurt our brains".
 
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CarlJ said:
You're conflating "easy to pronounce" with "easy to guess how to pronounce". You've demonstrated in your last sentence that Yosemite is quite easy to pronounce: "yo-se-mi-ti". Four very easy to pronounce syllables (I might have written "yoh-seh-mih-tee"). Hard to pronounce would be something with seven consonants in a row, or trilled "R"s (quite challenging if you haven't learned from an early age), or clicks that one must make while simultaneously saying the letter.
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You are correct, that's what I meant.
 
CarlJ said:
You're conflating "easy to pronounce" with "easy to guess how to pronounce". You've demonstrated in your last sentence that Yosemite is quite easy to pronounce: "yo-se-mi-ti". Four very easy to pronounce syllables (I might have written "yoh-seh-mih-tee"). Hard to pronounce would be something with seven consonants in a row, or trilled "R"s (quite challenging if you haven't learned from an early age), or clicks that one must make while simultaneously saying the letter.

English is an amalgam of other languages, and US English moreso. Many place names in the southwestern US come from Spanish, or various Native American languages (since those are the groups that got here first and named everything). The answer to you not being familiar with the attendant pronunciation rules shouldn't be "let's not use those words", rather, simply, become familiar with a few of the rules, or if you're confronted with just a few words, simply memorize the pronunciation for those words and move on. You've already done it for thousands of other words. Continually mispronouncing a name after having heard, in reply, the correct pronunciation, lands somewhere between silly and obstinate.

I'll give you a hint about your assertion that, "it's hard for non Americans": the US is a big place, many US residents who aren't from the Southwestern parts, don't know how to pronounce the Spanish-influenced names either. No matter - if they visit, they learn quickly enough. For example, "j" often sounds like "h" with a bit of emphasis, so "Mojave" is pronounced mo-HAH-vee. They're all simple, easy-to-pronounce sounds. Similarly, one of the nearby cities, "El Cajon" is pronounced "el kuh-HONE", not "el KAY-jun". Still, easy to pronounce.

"Sequoia" is easy enough to pronounce as well: seh-kwoy-uh. If you didn't know how to pronounce it, now you do.

(Plus, most of these are 3 or 4 simple syllables. It's not like they're confronting you with "macOS
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch".)

Apple is going out of their way to teach the world a bit about California - your response seems a bit like "Mojave is too hard, we don't like learning, let's call it macOS Spoon because that doesn't hurt our brains".
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I've lived in California for decades, and learned these pronunciations long ago, yet I think you are being a bit snarky about who should know how to pronounce them correctly. Anyone who isn't familiar with Spanish (especially, the Spanish J and English H sound being the same sound) is bound to be puzzled, especially if neither Spanish nor English is their first language. Complicating matters in the one case at least is the fact that the Spanish spelling of Mojave isn't always used. In some places it's spelled Mohave, English phonetically. Many other place names, whether Spanish in derivation or otherwise, can be pronounced locally in a variety of ways. Right off the top of my head I can think of at least three very different and accepted pronunciations of Los Angeles. So in reality these words are only easy if you are familiar with the local area and the bizarre rules of that highly idiomatic language we call English.
 
GeneralChang said:
Please don't be Mojave. I heard way too many mispronunciations of Yosemite to think that would go down any differently.
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Okay, pardon my incorrect pronunciation, but
my favorite way to say it when hit with the software bugs was You’res***ingme...
:p
I just want a stable, bug free OS again.
 
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