Sorry, but Sierra? Another mountain?

[tyr2]

How about 10.13 macOS Hellhole Canyon

http://www.sandiegocounty.gov/parks/openspace/hellhole.html It's a super nice place for a walk, pretty deserted.

I'll even chuck in a background image for them, save them a trip.

 

[maflynn]

Would your opinion change if they used famous areas of New England as a naming convention?

LOL, you mean like macOS Dunkin Donuts

No, I think the convention has run its course, it was kind of cool with the cats, but by Lion I was personally done with the whole thing.

 

[F1Mac]

Honestly I couldn't care less about the OS's names. I always think of, and refer to them with their version numbers. They used Sierra as an obvious reference to Siri. As for the 2017 update...is there a "Mount Lessjunk" somewhere in the U.S.?

 

[maflynn]

is there a "Mount Lessjunk" somewhere in the U.S.?

No but as noted below, there is a hellhole and I think that's a fitting name

How about 10.13 macOS Hellhole Canyon

 

[Ledsteplin]

I think the Joshua tree would be nice.

 

[Badagri]

I always think of the 1993 film when someone mentions Joshua Tree.

 

[MysticCow]

How you would identify each years new macOS release then?

10.13 Death Valley

 

[psionicsin]

I see them waiting till next year and upgrading everything all together to v11. macOS 11/iOS 11/tvOS 11.

watchOS is brand new, and not based on iOS (like tvOS is), so it'll just get 4.

 

[ScoobyMcDoo]

 

[rezwits]

All in all I am going to just call it macOS 12. It doesn't bother me, but to use the 10 when they explicitly got rid of the X (10) is dumb...

 

[maflynn]

but to use the 10 when they explicitly got rid of the X (10) is dumb...

I see your point but on the other hand 10.12 is not a major update, its an improvement on Yosemite's code base. We saw some small features and bug fixes introduced into El Cap, and we now see some small features introduced into macOS 10.12.

I think Apple is more focused on iOS and this is all we'll be seeing, small annual updates.

 

[Ethosik]

They dropped the X, so you no longer say Mac OS "ten" "ten" "dot" "whatever".

 

[tyr2]

I fully expect next years release to be macOS 11.0. Then it'll be aligned with iOS and tvOS. Since so many features now need updates across the platforms it would make sense to unify the version numbering.

 

[Dorothy Gale]

10.13 Death Valley

 

[0000757]

The new file system is going to be a massive internal change, so I've got a feeling that now that they've dropped the "X" they're going to use the new fs as a reason to bump the version number to 11.0 next year, and avoid 10.13. (Adobe and Corel both did numbering tricks to avoid 13 as well.)

The name, though, is just going to be macOS.

They wouldn't change from 10.0 until they basically change the entire kernel, most likely. macOS, back when it was Mac OS X, was supposed to be the foundation for 20 years (Steve Jobs' words), which at the time would've put macOS's current system foundation EOL at 2021 if we want to get super literal about it.

The name change to macOS was just that, a name change. A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. As big as a file system change is, it's not quite exactly the reasoning to bump up version numbers if everything else in the underlying system is essentially the same.

At least they aren't taking the Windows NT route.

 

[hobowankenobi]

Nah.....they shoulda gone old school: System 11

Seriously, I would have preferred MacOS 11, and so on, like iOS and the others. Clean and simple. No need to quantify how much or what kind of improvements are required, just roll out the next number and be done. I never use the marketing names anyway.....as I don't want to be bothered with remembering the sequence.

That's what numbers are for.

 

[mikecwest]

Nah.....they shoulda gone old school: System 11

Seriously, I would have preferred MacOS 11, and so on, like iOS and the others. Clean and simple. No need to quantify how much or what kind of improvements are required, just roll out the next number and be done. I never use the marketing names anyway.....as I don't want to be bothered with remembering the sequence.

That's what numbers are for.

Yes, and maybe bring back "At Ease", so your desktop can look like a primitive version of IOS?

 

[jerwin]

Yes, and maybe bring back "At Ease", so your desktop can look like a primitive version of IOS?

Oh, I hated At Ease. For some reason, some of the labs at college had installed it. Getting rid of the thing was a trivial operation, though. Microsoft Word 5 had all sorts of file management commands that could r00t the machine.Of course, getting the machine back to its gimped state was more difficult.

 

[mikecwest]

Oh, I hated At Ease. For some reason, some of the labs at college had installed it. Getting rid of the thing was a trivial operation, though. Microsoft Word 5 had all sorts of file management commands that could r00t the machine.Of course, getting the machine back to its gimped state was more difficult.

It's been many MANY years, but if I remember correctly, couldn't you just force quit it? Maybe it was with the debugger switch, I forget. Re-launching it needed a password, but a simple hard force power cycle would boot back into it. The only thing I would do is make a silly startup screen, and watch the computer teacher (who knew nothing about computers) try for days to get rid of it, until the IT guy would come out, and he couldn't figure it out, so he would just restore the entire machine like new...only for a new startupscreen to re-appear. (Remember, you had to remove the file extension, or it wouldn't work) Invisible files made it very challenging for those without a 12 year old's computer knowledge.

 

[hobowankenobi]

Yes, and maybe bring back "At Ease", so your desktop can look like a primitive version of IOS?

....The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or something like that.

 

[navaira]

macOS Chernobyl is a lost opportunity in my opinion. Perhaps next year.

 

[8692574]

Kind of a pointless rant thread but I was hoping for a change in scenery to my wallpaper. We had Yosemite and El Capitan the past two years with mountain wallpapers and now Sierra.

Could using mountains again in the naming scheme mean something? Could macOS be moving to a 3 year big update cycle like the iPhone? Perhaps I'm overthinking it but you never know. Thoughts?

1 It is just a codename
2 You can change the wallpaper to whatever you want anytime
3 Mac OS X has moved to small update since it hs been a yearly update
4 Yes it is a pointless rant (at least we agree on something)

watchOS is brand new, and not based on iOS (like tvOS is), so it'll just get 4.

watchOS is the mobile operating system of the Apple Watch, developed by Apple Inc. It is based on the iOS operating system

 

[ljonesj]

I'll be trying to figure out how to rename back to OS X 10.12 myself which it should be

 

[jameslmoser]

Kind of a pointless rant thread but I was hoping for a change in scenery to my wallpaper. We had Yosemite and El Capitan the past two years with mountain wallpapers and now Sierra.

Could using mountains again in the naming scheme mean something? Could macOS be moving to a 3 year big update cycle like the iPhone? Perhaps I'm overthinking it but you never know. Thoughts?

Don't knock the name... in my opinion the name is the greatest improvement so far from 'El Capitan'. =)

 

[MrNomNoms]

Personally I would have loved it to be called 'Kaimanawa' (after Kaimanawa Mountains) if for no other reason than hearing Americans struggle to pronounce the name properly.