Mac OS X Snow Leopard Discussion

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I'm interested in what they'll do after 10.9

Will they be using XI? Looks a bit retarded :p

Version number's don't work like that. There's no reason there couldn't be "Mac OS X version 10.28.97" if they wanted to.

Like I stated earlier, "Mac OS X" has strong brand recognition, just like "Windows" or "iPod." Thus, it doesn't matter what the packaging looks like, because people will know what "Mac OS X" is.

Yes it does.

"We've got great brand recognition: lets ignore that when we try to sell our new product" is extremely rare. One notable example of Apple trying to build the Mac OS X umbrella label includes the way they're counting "Mac OS X market share" by including iPhones/iPod Touches in their count.

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they had 10.4.12 ( think it was 12 )

so they are not against going past the 10 barrier, might be OSX 11.0.0

Well it will be 10.10 (nothing says you can't have >.9 point release), unless they run out of big cat names :p
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Hmm, well they did this for Tiger, but it didn't match the real thing:

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This could be the same kind of deal. Although, I really do hope the box and disc do look like that! :D

Yeah, but look at the Leopard disk.

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They've done it with Leopard, they certainly could do it again with Snow Leopard.

I'm interested in what they'll do after 10.9

Will they be using XI? Looks a bit retarded :p

Mac OS X 11.0

"OS X" is good branding they wouldn't want to give up, and it wouldn't really be considered to be a roman numeral considering they've called it "Mac OS 10 version 10" for the last 6 releases.

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"Mac OS X v11.0" doesn't make any sense. The "X" in "Mac OS X" isn't a letter, it's a Roman number.

So you would go from "Mac OS ten (dot six) Snow Leopard" to "Mac OS ten eleven (dot something) codename here".

Exactly. I don't think some people realize that OS X = OS 10

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"Mac OS X v11.0" doesn't make any sense. The "X" in "Mac OS X" isn't a letter, it's a Roman number.

So you would go from "Mac OS ten (dot six) Snow Leopard" to "Mac OS ten eleven (dot something) codename here".

It's not written OS X.6, it's written OS X 10.6. This is Apple, and if Apple decide the X doesn't stand for anything they'll pretend the X never stood for anything.

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It's not written OS X.6, it's written OS X 10.6. This is Apple, and if Apple decide the X doesn't stand for anything they'll pretend the X never stood for anything.

It's pronounced as "Mac OS ten dot six", not "Mac OS ex ten dot six". You'll never hear Steve Jobs saying the latter.

The fact that they choose to repeat the "v10" bit of the version number doesn't change the fact the "X" still stands for "10".

They could throw that overboard, but I strongly doubt it.

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Well it will be 10.10 (nothing says you can't have >.9 point release), unless they run out of big cat names :p

LOL, yeah, they're actually pretty close in doing that.

Those still left after this would be: Lion, Cougar, Lynx. And that's it. Unless they want to use Clouded Leopard oddities, but I sure hope they change their naming scheme before that. :D Lion is the "king" of big cats, so maybe it will be last. ;) Apple has already trademarked Cougar and Lynx.

"Mac OS X v11.0" doesn't make any sense. The "X" in "Mac OS X" isn't a letter, it's a Roman number.

So you would go from "Mac OS ten (dot six) Snow Leopard" to "Mac OS ten eleven (dot something) codename here".

Don't underestimate the weird minds of marketing people. Odder things have happened than them suddenly starting to treat a roman numeral as instead part of a brand name, if it was deemed powerful enough. Intel remained with the Pentium brand for a long time, despite it originally being meant as merely the fifth (penta) CPU generation, after their 80486. For the next generation, they simply went for Pentium II instead of going for e.g. Hexium, because of the power of the Pentium brand. It made zero logical sense, but complete business sense.

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Only time will tell right? ;) Don't think we'll see Apple departing from the Mac OS X v10.x scheme anytime soon though. Pretty convinced we'll at the very least least see a Mac OS X v10.7 and v10.8.

That's is unless something really really big happens, like Apple actually dumping the current Aqua scroll bars. :laugh:

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"Mac OS X" is marketing, it's not an Roman numeral (Since then it's "Ten Ten Point Five")

It would just be Mac OS 10 if it was meant to be interpreted as a number (The X makes it seem like a larger change, the jump from OS8 to OS9 wasn't that great, while the change from OS9 to OS X was, but just increasing the version number doesn't signify that)

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"Mac OS X" is marketing, it's not an Roman numeral (Since then it's "Ten Ten Point Five")

At this point that's simply not true. The "X" stands for the number "10" and is pronounced as such, not as being "Ex". You can take it up with Steve Jobs himself next time he pronounces the name in public.

Edit In fact you can hear it for yourself at 0:57 right now:

Jobs says "Mac OS Ten Leopard" while at the same time a huge disc pops up in the background with "Mac OS X Leopard" written down. Honestly, what more proof do you want?

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At this point that's simply not true. The "X" stands for the number "10" and is pronounced as such, not as being "Ex". You can take it up with Steve Jobs himself next time he pronounces the name in public.

Edit In fact you can hear it for yourself at 0:57 right now:

Jobs says "Mac OS Ten Leopard" while at the same time a huge disc pops up in the background with "Mac OS X Leopard" written down. Honestly, what more proof do you want?

LOL that was a great one ;) nice clip

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At this point that's simply not true. The "X" stands for the number "10" and is pronounced as such, not as being "Ex". You can take it up with Steve Jobs himself next time he pronounces the name in public.

Edit In fact you can hear it for yourself at 0:57 right now:

Jobs says "Mac OS Ten Leopard" while at the same time a huge disc pops up in the background with "Mac OS X Leopard" written down. Honestly, what more proof do you want?

Great clip :p I did like that keynote.

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