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What Will macOS 10.16 Be Called: Mammoth, Monterey, Skyline, or Something New?
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Mammoth indicates immense heat and pressure lurking just below the surface. Probably not the best choice given the impending ARM transition.
That would make a heck of a login image. Put a marshmallow on a stick and get roasting with macOS DF.
As long as the next MacOS is more clearly focused on being an operating system for laptops / desktops, as differentiated from what "just works" on an iOS, I will be more reassured than I was in moving to a new laptop that runs Catalina.
When I plugged my MBA 2020 into house current for the first time, and heard a sound very like that of an iPad being connected to wall juice, I was startled and not pleased. It made me think much harder about the meaning of not being able to adjust column widths in the Mail app of Catalina, for instance.
At first I figured ok well they'll get around to fixing that less than barebones mail viewer, right?
But after I heard a laptop chirp that "yep my batt's charging", I felt very differently about the lack of functional amenities on Catalina's idea of a mail viewer. I felt like it was a message from Apple that the drift is towards iOS.
I'm not sure who thinks an iPad is already the same thing as a laptop or desktop, but there's still a clear usage difference for me. I have laptops and iOS devices and like them both, but convergence of their operating systems is not my idea of the path forward, at least not when it looks like the drift is towards making everything "just work" on an iPhone at the expense of what has long "just worked" for a lot of us on laptops and desktops in a MacOS.
Bottom line from me to Apple: keep yer likeable but not indispensable handoff gimmicks and let's have column width adjustments and clickable sort-by column options in mail under Catalina... or at least by the time the next MacOS rolls out, whatever its name may be.
When I plugged my MBA 2020 into house current for the first time, and heard a sound very like that of an iPad being connected to wall juice, I was startled and not pleased. It made me think much harder about the meaning of not being able to adjust column widths in the Mail app of Catalina, for instance.
At first I figured ok well they'll get around to fixing that less than barebones mail viewer, right?
But after I heard a laptop chirp that "yep my batt's charging", I felt very differently about the lack of functional amenities on Catalina's idea of a mail viewer. I felt like it was a message from Apple that the drift is towards iOS.
I'm not sure who thinks an iPad is already the same thing as a laptop or desktop, but there's still a clear usage difference for me. I have laptops and iOS devices and like them both, but convergence of their operating systems is not my idea of the path forward, at least not when it looks like the drift is towards making everything "just work" on an iPhone at the expense of what has long "just worked" for a lot of us on laptops and desktops in a MacOS.
Bottom line from me to Apple: keep yer likeable but not indispensable handoff gimmicks and let's have column width adjustments and clickable sort-by column options in mail under Catalina... or at least by the time the next MacOS rolls out, whatever its name may be.
Skyline would be a totally awesome name! Too Awesome! Not appropriate for a MacOS release that is simply a delta improvement. Want to save that one for something amazing.
How about "MacOS Vista"?
I suspect Avalon which is still Catalina based, but who knows at this stage, some people have reported they may even move to macOS 11 or 14.0, i guess we will have to wait and see what happens.
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The first thing named Catalina I encountered was the Seaplane (I built one as a plastic kit, when I was a kid), so I think that the next macOS wil be named macOS Catalina Amphibian! Because it will sport further integration/incorporation with iOS. 
I really hope they think about what the name sounds like to people who do not live in California, which is in fact, most people. There was a kerfuffle for awhile with iPad sounding like a feminine hygiene product and Siri meaning a**hole in Japanese. It took a while for people to get used to it. We had OS X Renegades, and now we have macOS Salad Dressing. (Even Apple employees around here found it funny.) The word "mammoth" evokes an image of a prehistoric elephant for most people, and Mammoth Cave National Park is in Kentucky. Is Apple ready for Apple-haters to deride macOS White Elephant, or macOS Caveman?
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When I was growing up, my mother always had a bottle of Catalina salad dressing on the table. I used a picture of a Salad dressing bottle as my background picture, and an Apple employee doing screen sharing with me thought it was hilarious. They need to put more thought into their product names.The first thing named Catalina I encountered was the Seaplane (I built one as a plastic kit, when I was a kid), so I think that the next macOS wil be named macOS Catalina Amphibian! Because it will sport further integration/incorporation with iOS.
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It depends on what flavor of Shasta it's named after. Or is Shasta something other than a soft drink? I don't know, Like most Mac users, I don't live in California.
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Leviathan would be just as good.Behemoth?
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The problem with Skyline is that Skyline Drive runs parallel to the Appalachian Trail in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Otherwise, the most impressive skyline is in New York City.
I don't care as long as it works!
But it's just going to be code on top of Catalina. How about LOAP.
But it's just going to be code on top of Catalina. How about LOAP.
80% of the name suggestion made no sense and it's utterly 💩
macOS Carolina will be a good call even if it isn't completely related to a famous area of the country.
macOS Carolina will be a good call even if it isn't completely related to a famous area of the country.
macOS Shoulder because that's what comes before the ARM.
and when they move to ARM they should prolly do a OS rewrite and call it MacOS 11.
and when they move to ARM they should prolly do a OS rewrite and call it MacOS 11.
Did anyone catch that bit about the advertising team taking drug-fueled minibus trips to Big Sur?
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