Now those would have been great names. I updated my blog post with a list of 10 better naming schemes (instead of just one), and one of them I picked (before I read your post, actually) was "Hardwood Trees." I don't know if those are technically hardwood...but they'd be awesome names.
Someone has too much time on their hands.
Besides, some product names are bad but you get used to it e.g. Windows XP, Nintendo Wii, and even iPad.
I would have preferred them to simply call it Mac OS. Kinda like a reboot of their MacBook, and falls in line with their other OS naming convention (Watch OS, iOS).
I mean, seriously, "El Capitan". Yosemite was bad. Mavericks was worse. But "EL CAPITAN"?
When I first heard it, I thought El Captain meant "The Captain".
I miss the simple names. OS 8, OS 9, Windows 7, Windows 8.
When I first heard it, I thought El Captain meant "The Captain".
I miss the simple names. OS 8, OS 9, Windows 7, Windows 8.
Mavericks was good, I thought.
Yosemite was fine.
I understand that this upcoming version is iterative, featuring improvements to the Yosemite core... so naming it a subset of Yosemite made sense. But there are way cooler names inside of Yosemite, IMO, that would've sounded better.
Tuolumne... Mariposa... Ahwahnee... Tioga... Wawona...
Well, considering that a name is "a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to," I would say that it is doing it's job pretty dang fine. I like the iterave name, and believe you are blowing this largely out of proportion.Exactly! What good is it as a name if it leaves so many people going, "Huh?"
I have had discussions with people at my company about our internal releases. For many, it is far easier to remember the name of the operating system over 1) The Number or 2) The features.They should just call it OSX 11 or 10.11, and not advertise the names except internally. It's an OS not a movie.
I don't think the naming scheme is awful, but I much preferred the big cat names. Maybe they should've gone aquatic animals (they were so close at WWDC 13 with Sea Lion...) or something along those lines.
I didn't mind Mavericks or Yosemite, but I think El Capitan is a bit strange as it's not an English name. What was wrong with Half Dome?
When I first heard it, I thought El Captain meant "The Captain".