OS X 10.4 Codename...?


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As Mr Jobs will probably be announcing the next version of OS-X in the forthcoming months does anyone have an clue or preference to what the new codename will be...??

As we've already had Puma, Jaguar and Panther, do you think they will stay with the cat based theme, say with Cheetah or something, go for something else or just drop the codename out...??

Also, are they any new updates or improvements you'd like included...??

Personally I'd like the metal finder replaced with a a more pleasing Aqua based one.

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Before everyone gets confused with pervious codenames heres a run down on the previous ones:

10.0 - Cheetah

10.1 - Puma

10.2 - Jaguar

10.3 - Panther

Now you can simply list a wild cat that isnt on that list and have a stab in the dark at the 10.4 codename

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As Mr Jobs will probably be announcing the next version of OS-X in the forthcoming months...

I wouldn't expect any announcement from Apple regarding the next version of OS X for at least half a year. The earliest you'd see it would be WWDC which is in June. And even then that's early; only 7 months after Panther was released.

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It could be hard in the UK as Lynx is a major brand of deodorant, so I doubt they'll use that.

I think 'Tiger' is more likley.

Or, maybe they will move to OSXI (11) as 10.3 -> 10.4 doesn't sound much of a change really...

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niether does .1 -> .2 but if you look at the differences between the two it is a fairly major upgrade.

The code name doesn't really matter in any official sense, with 10.0/10.1 nobody really said anything about the code name 10.2 changed that (probably because so many people were talking about the upgrades and the fact that it had a cool name). The box displays it's jaguar spots. Panther has dropped the fur from it's logo once again.

I'm not sure why we all call it jaguar/panther: is that really more descriptive than 10.3 and if so why don't we toss around the old codenames for os x too - and what about the "colour" names for the point releases: ie: jaguar plaid for 10.2.5?

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What I'm saying is that people will start to wonder why they are paying $129 for a .1 upgrade. That's why Apple used 'Panther' more than '10.3' in their promotions for Panther, and to a lesser degree the same with 10.2/Jaguar.

Also, when was the last time Apple put this amount of stuff in point releases. I mean before this they went all the way from System 1 to OS9 in 15 years or so, and it's been 3/4 years and apple is still using '10'.

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That's because the marketing "Name" is OS X (X meaning 10).

The last time Apple put "this much stuff" in a point release was in 10.2, before that 10.1 and before that 10.0 (upgrade from 9.2). It's pretty clear what you're getting when you buy OS X from Apple. People don't say "oh it's another OS release" they say "Hey, Apple's made something new". Heck, if they really want to sell more copies why not just rename it to OS 20,000million bazillion: then people would _have_ to upgrade because that is much bigger than 11.

Also, the majority of Apple's income is made on hardware sales and that is where the majority of the 10.3 copies are being sold. Losing the whole "X" brand they have developed over the last few years isn't worth the extra money they'd make by convincing those people who would only update when the number change is big enough. I'm sure Apple has some very smart marketing people who do nothing but think about this sort of thing every day.

Would you really rather see a microsoft-esque naming scheme?

We could have OS X 2003

then OS PX

then OS .Com

Then OS 9000 SE

In the end they'd only be .0, .1, .2, and .3 AND we'd have a whole new bunch of people complaining that Apple is choosing random version numbers just to make people upgrade when there aren't enough changes to warrant a version-number-increase that big.

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