Sorry our standards are so low, we are a country of immigrants, you know.
Please feel free to use computers made by people in all those areas you've mentioned above, rather than these lowly American-made models.
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Wave-Themed OS X Banner Goes Up at Moscone West for WWDC 2013
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Please feel free to use computers made by people in all those areas you've mentioned above, rather than these lowly American-made models.
It's 2013. "X" dropped in, you know, March 2001. That's over 12 years (with no current end in sight, although who knows what will happen this year or next.)
Software vendors are known to skip version numbers, or deviate entirely from past history and ACCEPTED "wisdom" (Windows 3.1 -> Windows 95 -> 98 -> 98 SE -> Me; Windows NT 3.1 -> NT 3.5x -> NT 4.0 -> Windows 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> 7.) The folks in marketing have to flex muscle every now and then.
By the way...what's the average length of service for MacOS 8 & 9?
~ 2.5 years each.
Granted, "8" was really the follow up to 7.6, but Steve Jobs wanted to shutdown the Mac clone business, and did so handily by calling the next release OS 8.
Length of service for all System 7.x releases? ~ 6 years. So we're already double that with Mac OS X / OS X "10.x" releases.
LOGIC says they can name it whatever the heck they want to name it and the Apple faithful will buy it. Don't assume "XI" means anything. Perhaps "11" will come to pass, or maybe "XI" will be chosen simply to avoid confusing the masses, but it's all just marketing. OS XI 11.11. We're going all elevens (run for the hills!)
What do you suppose OS X means if they have to follow it up with "10.x"?
The X is more than "10". It also signifies UNIX, and the NeXT heritage that birthed Darwin (Mach microkernel based, BSD derived UNIX with Aqua Operating Environment). It shows that Apple has put extremely powerful workstations with a UNIX lineage on the desks of average ordinary computer users. It's an amazing feat of technological prowess, and a lot more than just a numeral that incremented beyond 9.
Compare OS X 10.8 with 10.1 and it's an amazing difference, and an entirely new platform (literally - they kept OS X naming after moving from PPC to Intel and are still there years after the transition was completed, marked by cutting off PPC legacy support in 10.7.)
It's all just a presumption until they make it happen. Don't get ahead of yourselves.
I think it's just as likely they converge marketing of iOS and OS X (not intended to mean a converged OS in its entirety) and call it something completely new. You know, LOGICALLY you'd expect APPLE to THINK DIFFERENT.
At some point "i" will be kind of passé if it isn't already. Perhaps by 2020 at the latest we'll have forgotten about these names.
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OSX is synonymous with Apple.
It would be stupid for them to throw it away.
Then again they seemed to manage throwing away long time brands in PowerMac and PowerBook and got away with it.
Probably why they are sticking with iMac instead of just using Mac - marketing - but Mac would fall in line with their other naming conventions (Mac Mini/Mac/Mac Pro)
Walrus comes later when OS X starts getting long in the tooth.
No really. This new OS will be called OS X Sea Lion - da the wave.
When apple releases an OS, with too many features that no one uses, it will be called OS X Elephant Seal. The OS that apple haters will hate and bludgeon because it is so apply and user-friendly will be called OS X Harp Seal.
I'm going to vote "something else".
Whatever comes next will need to roll off the tongue and not fly in the face of the branding Apple has invested years in. Think about how your average consumer knows OS X (many still call it Mac OS X) - it's a household name like Coke. To change it carelessly would be flying in the face of the corporate marketing mentality. They have a valuable brand with a legacy and a faithful following.
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I'm going to vote "something else".
Whatever comes next will need to roll off the tongue and not fly in the face of the branding Apple has invested years in. Think about how your average consumer knows OS X (many still call it Mac OS X) - it's a household name like Coke. To change it carelessly would be flying in the face of the corporate marketing mentality. They have a valuable brand with a legacy and a faithful following.
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I like that!
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Perhaps iOS X then?
They kind of had to - not using PowerPC processors any longer.
I'm not entirely sure what kind of co-branding marketing agreement they had with IBM, but it's possible IBM would have sued them for trademark infringement. Remember PowerMac brand came out with the very first PowerPC 601 based Mac. Prior to that it was the Motorola 68000 line.
IBM would have had a great case against Apple as it would have been easy to prove consumer confusion in court, labeling a computer "PowerMac" yet shipping with a non IBM PowerPC processor.
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but Apple may be dropping the 10.9/ cat name theme. Going forward calling it OS X. Last year they announced they would be talking about "Mountain Lion" at WWDC. This year its just the "next" version of OS X.
Just my $0.02.
Just my $0.02.
but that's how the X looks in the first place. Is there even a picture where apple doesn't "cross" anything out.
I think since it's so thin like the 7 design, i wonder if OSX 10.9 went through some "simplistic" changes
Aw man - what fun is that. But you're probably right. That is what the big Wave is for. A sea change in the way apple names their OS X releases.
There might still be one left, but way to show you know how to use your brain and reason.
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but that's how the X looks in the first place. Is there even a picture where apple doesn't "cross" anything out.
I think since it's so thin like the 7 design, i wonder if OSX 10.9 went through some "simplistic" changes
"At Apple, we don't simply put a dent in the universe. We put our X on it! Suck it nebula! Stick it where the 100,000,000 suns don't shine, galaxy!"
I've got it, I've got it! OS X Sea Lion!!
What if Apple changes the naming scheme? What about OS X Pacific? Or OS X Atlantic? OS X Ocean? OS X Waves? OS X Water? Aaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh...
What if using code names that most developers use prior to releasing their product to the masses was just a fad? It was kind of a WTF moment when Apple kept the big cat code name on the first OS X release to ship with one on the box.
Hell, remember boxed software?