Apple Already Working on Mac OS X 10.7 Development

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Quillz

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10.7 ;)

Well, to be fair, what would have been System 8.7 was later renamed to Mac OS 9, so Apple has done weird things before.

I don't think we'll see Mac OS 11 for a long time, though. Since "11" would imply a radical change that could only mean the replacement of Darwin with something else. Obviously, all the other changes we've seen thus far have only been good enough for point releases.

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Well, to be fair, what would have been System 8.7 was later renamed to Mac OS 9, so Apple has done weird things before.

I don't think we'll see Mac OS 11 for a long time, though. Since "11" would imply a radical change that could only mean the replacement of Darwin with something else. Obviously, all the other changes we've seen thus far have only been good enough for point releases.

They'll most likely stick to the OSX name for a while. THey could have OSX 11.x but I don't think it's going to be the next release

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They'll most likely stick to the OSX name for a while. THey could have OSX 11.x but I don't think it's going to be the next release

That makes no sense whatsoever. Mac OS X 11.1 would mean we'd get Mac OS Ten-Eleven dot One. :huh: The "X" literally stands for "Ten" / "10", which as been discussed many times before.

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They'll most likely stick to the OSX name for a while. THey could have OSX 11.x but I don't think it's going to be the next release

Perhaps they should have renamed it to Mac iOSX 1 (Intel OSX Version 1) when they finally dumped PowerPC compatibility? ;)

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I don't know why people are always surprised about this.

This happens for ALL software and not just Windows and OSX. Many companies work on 2, 3, and even 4 versions at once. Different teams work on different features and each feature has it's own development time and release plan.

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My thought on the whole discussion of when it will move from OSX to say OSY or OS-IJW (It Just Works!), is when they run out of the system numbers. So, we are at officially 10.6.2 with Snow Leopard. Once they move to 10.7, then it will be whatever cute name they give it. Then 10.8, 10.9 then...10.10? Or at that point would they work it under a new name away from the kitties?

Maybe at 10.10 they would roll it to Mac OS Version 11 a.k.a. Mac OSX Chupacabra, Bigfoot or Unicorn! I really don't care so much about the naming convention over the whole functionality of the system, whether it be OSX 10.6.2, Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.1LT, Windows 7 or whatnot. If it does what it is supposed to do and it does it well, then that is what is important to me.

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My thought on the whole discussion of when it will move from OSX to say OSY or OS-IJW (It Just Works!), is when they run out of the system numbers. So, we are at officially 10.6.2 with Snow Leopard. Once they move to 10.7, then it will be whatever cute name they give it. Then 10.8, 10.9 then...10.10? Or at that point would they work it under a new name away from the kitties?

Maybe at 10.10 they would roll it to Mac OS Version 11 a.k.a. Mac OSX Chupacabra, Bigfoot or Unicorn! I really don't care so much about the naming convention over the whole functionality of the system, whether it be OSX 10.6.2, Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.1LT, Windows 7 or whatnot. If it does what it is supposed to do and it does it well, then that is what is important to me.

and there is OS-FIW (finally it works!)

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They'll most likely stick to the OSX name for a while. THey could have OSX 11.x but I don't think it's going to be the next release

I don't think they'll have OS X 11.x builds. I mean, they could (since "OS X" is really more of a platform than an actual version number), but it would just be awkward.

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I don't think they'll have OS X 11.x builds. I mean, they could (since "OS X" is really more of a platform than an actual version number), but it would just be awkward.

or make it up that it is OSX has no meaning so make it as

10.6 was actually 1.6

then here they go

OSX 2.0 !

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I don't think they'll have OS X 11.x builds. I mean, they could (since "OS X" is really more of a platform than an actual version number), but it would just be awkward.

"X" stands for the version number as "Mac OS X" is pronounced as "Mac OS Ten", just listen to Steve Jobs. It's really that simple. The platform is called "Mac".

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