Pauli Olavi Ojala, writing for Medium:
The Mac operating system holds the dubious honor of being the most frequently mispronounced tech brand. It looks like “Oh Ess Ex”, but the X is actually a roman numeral, so you’re supposed to say “Oh Ess Ten”.
And:
All of Apple’s other operating systems are branded with a lowercase prefix and a simple version number. Meanwhile OS X has a total of three numbers in the name: there’s the roman “X”, then the same number as the major version number, then the actual version number which is currently eleven.
There’s a simple solution: bring back the “Mac” and drop the confusing non-version-numbers.
At the very least, there’s a lack of branding cohesion here. The Mac has a long tradition with Roman numerals, starting with the Mac II and shifting to the OS when Steve Jobs came back to Apple and used the seeds of NeXTSTEP to create OS X.
I’m not going to lie. I have ‘0’ time for this “branding” BS. No one gives a crap but pedants.
I think I agree with you. To be sure, there are probably better approaches to branding and version numbers… but it’s pretty clear to everyone who isn’t intentionally misunderstanding.
I always call OSX ‘Oh Ess Ex’ even though I know it’s wrong and no one will ever, ever, stop me.
I’ve always wondered if Apple held on to ‘OS X’ so long because of nostalgia for NeXT?
iOS
tvOS
watchOS
macOS
carOS?
Agreed that changing the name would not be worth the trouble. If the do, however, they should call the next version “System” 11 just to screw with people.
6.0.8 fo’evah, yo!
I like the idea of unifying the branding scheme . . . Mac OS or macOS works. It’s been so long that Mac OS 10 needed to be a thing . . .
We had a Mac OS before. That said, I could easily see Apple using macOS despite that.
Note, though, there hasn’t been a Mac with a Roman numeral in its name for over twice as long as there were Macs with them (1987-1994, Mac II to Color Classic II).
And that was two CPU architectures ago.
I think that long tradition is officially long dead at this point…
(That said, “MacOS 11” sounds fine to me.
But I’d also be fine with OS X 11, because I have never, ever said “OS Ten”, no matter what Apple wanted me to do.
I also tend to call it “OSX”, if only because that makes the web searches better.)
As long as they avoid the Ballmer era Microsoft branding, then no one will get hurt.
Agreed. I’m with @Angry_Drunk on this:
“An issue that literally nobody who’s not a tech blogger gives a singular shit about.”
And yet, somehow most of us cope. OS X and iOS… one man’s lack of cohesion is another man’s namespace orthogonality. They’re not especially likely to be mistaken for one another, and neither name is bad.
I wouldn’t have a problem with that. But I think that people fretting excessively over it need a nap and a change of diapers.
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