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Wave-Themed OS X Banner Goes Up at Moscone West for WWDC 2013

Great, this is a "real" Macrumor ;) and this thread has nearly twice as much postings as the iOS 7 banner thread.

Great. Still some life left in the Macintosh.
 
OS X Wave Cat.
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So the banner's background features a wave. Well stop the press - that must surely mean that the code names are now going to be sea creatures!

Errm.... didn't Leopard and it's successors feature galaxies/nebulas in space? I don't recall those being named after aliens.
 
onepremiere said:
... Or... OS X House Cat (Domesticated)

Comes with a full litter box, and allergies.
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Can't be...house cats don't swim.

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CyBeRino said:
Why do so many people think there'll be an 'OS XI' or 'OS 11'? OSX's full name is "Mac OS X" and its version number currently stands at 10.8. The next "Mac OS X" could just have version number 11.0. No problemo.

If Apple ever moves away from the "OS X" moniker, it'll probably be called something radically different.
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That's because X is the Roman numeral for 10.
 
Larry-K said:
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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You mean the ones that are designed by a Brit and by and large built in Asia with parts designed, and manufactured in Asia. :p
 
onepremiere said:
My gut is telling me Clark Little took that photo. Love the look.

OS X Liquid
OS X Fluid
OS X Splash?

Those are my guesses.
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OS X 10.9 Pacific
.10 Atlantic
.11 Arctic
.12 Antartic
.13 Indian

iOS 7 Caribbean
8 Mediterranean
?

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mrmarts said:
I wonder if OSX 10.9 will have a flatter design which will be a bold departure from previous OSX versions. I will be keeping my Macbook fully charged for this, and the many tears to be shed about the newly designed iOS which will make the threads come Monday.
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OS X 10.9 Flat Cat
10.10 Splat Cat
10.11 Fat Cat
10.12 Cool Cat
10.13 Hobie Cat
...

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92jlee said:
You heard it first here folks..

Mac OS 10.9 Sea Lion.

A slight upgrade over lion and mountain lion.
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I think your guess is all wet!
 
the8thark said:
Not really. Apple has always used nature as it's default finder backgrounds. From grass to the water, to space in 10.5. So maybe Apple just chose an ocean wave for 10.9
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And by 'always', you mean 'just the last three releases', right? Because the grass appeared first in the preview for 10.5 and was changed to space later. 10.4 and earlier had the "Aqua Blue" series of wallpapers with various lines and shapes on them. (They're still included.)
 
SanJacinto said:
Great, this is a "real" Macrumor ;) and this thread has nearly twice as much postings as the iOS 7 banner thread.

Great. Still some life left in the Macintosh.
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And yet some people say the Mac is not the most important thing Apple does.
 
cube said:
And yet some people say the Mac is not the most important thing Apple does.
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Well it's not "say" as in opinion, it's fact as in "financial results." Last quarter Mac sales account for about 12% of Apple's revenue. iOS devices account for 75%.

Even more threatening to the Mac is that iTunes Store sales, which originally was planned as a low profit or break even enterprise to sell Macs and iPods, is only a few points behind the Mac in revenue now.

I love my Macs, but this trend will continue, so the big wave poster could very will mean Apple is tossing OS X out to sea. OK, I joke, but the day of Macs merging with with iDevices is coming. I would not be too surprised if this new "very different" pro Mac being talked up was designed with the possibility of being able to run a future version of iOS -- not at introduction, but in a few years when OS X is phased out or merged with iOS. That is why it's "different."
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Well it's not "say" as in opinion, it's fact as in "financial results." Last quarter Mac sales account for about 12% of Apple's revenue. iOS devices account for 75%.

Even more threatening to the Mac is that iTunes Store sales, which originally was planned as a low profit or break even enterprise to sell Macs and iPods, is only a few points behind the Mac in revenue now.

I love my Macs, but this trend will continue, so the big wave poster could very will mean Apple is tossing OS X out to sea. OK, I joke, but the day of Macs merging with with iDevices is coming. I would not be too surprised if this new "very different" pro Mac being talked up was designed with the possibility of being able to run a future version of iOS -- not at introduction, but in a few years when OS X is phased out or merged with iOS. That is why it's "different."
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I'm not talking about what makes more money, but about what is more critical for people.
 
Remember how waves were used in the promotional video of the retina MacBook Pro? I bet this banner means that a retina MacBook Air is going to be introduced...
 
I think I've read almost every post here. This is one of the most entertaining threads in a long time.

While it's pretty ridiculous to draw any conclusions based on one poster given the history of posters at past WWDC's that had nothing materially to do with a particular version of OS X, Apple is kind of running out of appropriate cat names.

Moving to shark names does give Apple a catch of marketable OS code names, Cookiecutter shark notwithstanding ;)

iOS and OS X are not merging any time soon. What works on a 4" phone and a 30" display are very different. Microsoft is learning that lesson the hard way.
 
It could be colors, OS X Aquamarine.

Regardless of the name, the wave graphic has to do with..well...waves.

TV and Radio waves to be specific.
The graphic behind, "7" and, "10.9" is a speaker.
iRadio and Apple TV are indeed ingredients in the WWDC mix.
 
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