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Could just be they drop the OS part of the description:

OS X 10.9 becomes X9
iOS 7 becomes i7

No more animal names. Just simple and elegant like Jony Ive's designs.
 
(sure Panthers and Jaguars are related but not exactly the same. One is characteristically black and the other has spots. )
Black jaguars also have spots. It's just that black on black is hard to see. They aren't the same color, but they are the same species. It's like green eyes on humans, uncommon, but doesn't make them something else.
 
OS X Sabertooth.. That's something Scott Forstall would like.

I really don't think you understand why they wont be using sabertooth/sea lion/etc.

This version marks a new concept in OSX. Therefore it needs to be a new species of cat, not a reiteration on a previously used cat (lion/tiger/panther/jaguar/puma etc)
 
Could just be they drop the OS part of the description:

OS X 10.9 becomes X9
iOS 7 becomes i7

No more animal names. Just simple and elegant like Jony Ive's designs.

Welcome 1984 and THX-1138... Elegant my foot! No more personality... monotone and dead... nice... uniform look.

Horrible absolutely horrible...
 
Could just be they drop the OS part of the description:

OS X 10.9 becomes X9
iOS 7 becomes i7

No more animal names. Just simple and elegant like Jony Ive's designs.

That would never happen. The 'OS' is there for a reason - it denotes that an operating system is the subject. And i7 has more in common with Intel...
 
I'm just waiting for them to drop the extra dot release and have it be OS X. That way they can keep the OS X name for it forever. No more cats, no more "so we go to 10.XX next year", just OS X.
 
Has it been completely forgotten that most of the reason Apple moved from "MacOS" to "Mac OS X" was because of the new Unix base and SJ's obsession with the letter X in his brand names related to Unix?

The timing of it being the 10th iteration of Mac OS software just made it a cool double meaning.

I've posted about this very subject elsewhere.
 
People are reading too much into the background. All the galaxy wallpapers we've had have nothing to do with cats.

Speaking of which, I hated the green light given off by the green leaves wallpaper that they used temporarily for Leopard (I think) so I hope there's not too much green in the new one.
 
We've already had OS 11, it was called Puma. This is really 19 coming up.

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But see, "ten" is also wrong.

Wow, so wrong. Puma is 10.1, lets say that again "ten point one" but your token iOS 6.2 was actually iOS 62?
 
It's a jackal!

Out of the 1,000 posts so far, I'd say about 100 of them have said SEA LION!!! IT'S SEA LION!!! Reminds me of this...

jackal1.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhhm_CeXWhM
 
Has it been completely forgotten that most of the reason Apple moved from "MacOS" to "Mac OS X" was because of the new Unix base and SJ's obsession with the letter X in his brand names related to Unix?

The timing of it being the 10th iteration of Mac OS software just made it a cool double meaning.

It wasn't even the tenth version. The released it before OS 9 with some time.

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Wait...you do know 10.10 is really 10.1, right? You'd be going backwards...

Numerically it is true, but in the versioning world it is not.

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Everyone in this thread is actually wrong. The billboard is clearly hinting at Apple's much rumoured new product line:

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So THAT'S it. So we've been wrong all this time!
 
Er, no. Mac OS 9.0 was released in 1999. Mac OS X 10.0 was released in 2001.

The server version (I believe) which had all the underpinnings of OS X with a Platinum interface was released before OS9 was released.
 
Er, no. Mac OS 9.0 was released in 1999. Mac OS X 10.0 was released in 2001.


Mac OS X Server 1.0 was released on 16th March, 1999. Mac OS 9 was released on 23rd October 1999. So strictly speaking, OS X was available before OS 9.
 
I'm absolutely pumped for tomorrow. I just want to sleep for 22 hours straight, wake up, get a cup of coffee and read a live blog/watch live stream without blinking for the entire two hours of the keynote. :apple:
 
That would never happen. The 'OS' is there for a reason - it denotes that an operating system is the subject. And i7 has more in common with Intel...

I thought someone would say that.

They would refer to it as "Operating System: i7".

You just cut out the duplication as in "Operating System: iOS 7".

Apple doesn't use Intel processors in the iPhone/iPad so I don't see what that has to do with it.
 
I can't believe the dearth of rumors leading into WWDC. It's pretty amazing. We really only have WWDC banners and Intel's processor announcements to go by.

It seems like by now someone usually has a pic of a new MacBook Pro box. Or maybe that will have to wait until tomorrow morning. Or maybe Apple got wise to that and isn't delivering new products to stores until after announcements.
 
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