Mac OS X Naming Scheme/What comes after Mountain Lion etc. [Threads Merged]

[forza69]

If Apple don't use constellation names than moons from our solar system and beyond would be nice.

OS X Luna
OS X Thebe
OS X Europa
OS X Typhon
OS X Hyrda
OS X Hyperion
OS X Titan

I wouldn't be surprised if they indeed went the constellation route, seeing as their wallpapers have almost always been something relating to space.

 

[Futurix]

Mac OS X 10.9 Clouded Leopard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clouded_Leopard

 

[marconiusrex]

Saber tooth or Tabby

Sabre Toothed Tiger! My Fav! Or another funny way to go would be to go with OS X Tabby Cat!

 

[GGJstudios]

It's getting tougher to come up with names that haven't already been suggested several times:

Mac OS X 10.9 Clouded Leopard

Clouded Leopard

Could also be cougar or clouded leopard

I wanted to check out the names that Apple still hasn't used yet: cougar and clouded leopard.

Sabre Toothed Tiger!

Hoping for sabretooth, that would be awesome!

I was hoping for Saberthooth Tiger as next name.

Or another funny way to go would be to go with OS X Tabby Cat!

Tabby.

The series will go: Tabby, ...

Some of the same names keep popping up repeatedly:

Bobcat x9
Calico x3
Catamount x3
Clouded Leopard x4
Cougar (and variations) x24
Garfield x4
Hello Kitty x3
Maru x5
Liger x5
LOLcat x2
Lynx x16
Nittany Lion x3
Nyan Cat x3
Ocelot (and variations) x17
Sabre/Saber-toothed Tiger/Smilodon x10
Sea Lion x5
Serval (and variations) x5
Tabby x3
Thundercat x4​

 

[seveej]

Well...

I know speculating makes no sense, but as I'm probably not going to upgrade, I'm more interested in the name, than the feature set.

The major question will be, what happens after 10.9. Does apple have something up it's sleeve (for about 12-18 months hence), which justifies a major increment (whether it's Mac OS X 11.0 or Mac OS XI ), or will apple just go for Mac OS X 10.10 ???

If they go for 11.x then they're out of the conundrum of thinking up new cat names and can go for whatever (dogs, planets, constellations etc.). If so, then 10.9 will be the "final cat", and I personally hope for "Lynx" (reason being that that's the only big cat we have here in northern Europe and have been felt left out thus far )

RGDS,

 

[jafingi]

Mac OSX Sabertooth.

 

[GGJstudios]

Mac OSX Sabertooth.

See my post, just 2 before yours.

 

[hackerwayne]

I like how everyone just sort of assumes the next generation of the Mac OS will be called "OS XI"

I fully expect OS X to last beyond version 10.10. And whatever the next incarnation is, I have a feeling it will have a very different name.

I also suspect that they will quit with the cat names before they move on to next gen OS.

10.10 = 10.1 in Maths lol

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Mac OSX Sabertooth.

and get sued by Asus lol

 

[Lunfai]

10.9 Sabertooth

Maybe. hehe.

 

[Kashchei]

Good idea--I hadn't thought of that one before!

 

[mactumors]

I'm not saying that you're wrong, but...

...they are just search suggestions and may not even be related to Apple.

 

[Sound214]

I remember testing the exact same things a couple of weeks ago, and it showed Lynx in the same fashion. That's all gone now, though, even if you try to spell the first letters out.

 

[marvz]

Tomorrow we'll know more..

 

[MikhailT]

They're caching the common searches that people are performing on their sites, which is a smart thing to do because it reduces the CPU/disk load on the servers by caching the actual search results.

The reason both sabertooth and lynx shows up is because that's what many people here searched based on previous rumors, not solely because Apple have it somewhere on their site.

 

[Tmelon]

Tomorrow we'll know more..

Is that a random guess or do you somehow know more than us?

 

[PBP]

Is that a random guess or do you somehow know more than us?

Random guess based on some twitter rumors

 

[trustever]

today is Friday... no one does big announcment on a Friday..

 

[Ddyracer]

They could reuse the Mountain cat name with OS X Cougar.

 

[Connersaw64]

What it actually is.

I think we all know what it's really going to be.














OSX 10.9 Bearshark.

 

[Badrottie]

OS XI Steve Jobs

 

[printz]

Honestly I hope they give a real name to the system. Operating System Ten sounds too basic. Macintosh would have sounded better, but it has been applied to the computer, not the software. When talking to people (vast majority PC users anyway), I just say "Macintosh" when I talk about it.

 

[ELMI0001]

MacOS X Feral

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Honestly I hope they give a real name to the system. Operating System Ten sounds too basic. Macintosh would have sounded better, but it has been applied to the computer, not the software. When talking to people (vast majority PC users anyway), I just say "Macintosh" when I talk about it.

Maybe they go New Mac OS X instead of the names.

 

[djtech42]

10.9 Sabertooth is the highest result now. I would be happy with Sabertooth. It implies cutting edge and aggressive, powerful software (which I hope this version will be). I predicted Lynx before, but Sabertooth would be a cooler name.

 

[cjmillsnun]

Sorry... Couldn't resist... Those in the UK will understand

 

[Weaselboy]

Sorry... Couldn't resist... Those in the UK will understand

I so want this to happen!