“It’s been three days since Apple started decorating Moscone West with WWDC 2013 banners, and today the company has started publicly showing off new signage,” Federico Viticci reports for MacStories.
“In a press release published in April, Apple said developers attending WWDC would learn about the future of iOS and OS X,” Viticci reports.
“Apple has also just started assembling banners hinting at OS X, which, similar to the ‘7’ banner, simply say ‘X,'” Viticci reports. “The background of the banner seems to depict an ocean wave.”
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Watch out, slavish copiers…it is coming for you!
Its a BIG wave
The Apple tsunami.
All it’s competition will drown by the big wave. Sayanara Android, Samsung, Google etc.
A wave goodbye to something?
Here in Hawaii thats not a surfable wave. Its a get off the beach storm wave.
Is that a beach slap?
bye bye X here comes XI ?
… dump a valuable and perfectly usable ICON simply because some twerps are too stupid to understand version numbering?
STINKY: after 10.9 comes 10.10, then 10.11 and then 10.12, and only ignorant gits do not understand what’s been explained many times already.
I dont know why, you think I am a twerp or stupid?
but please read this to yourself over and over…
Take OSX 10.8.3 (and ask yourself what X referes to)
Unix or Ten?
We had OS 9 and after came OSX 10.0.1.
Next, it is extremely rare that Apple ever goes double digits on the second subset.
example: OS 9.15.3 — would never happen
nor will 10.10.1 or 10.13.4 — ever happen
after OSX 10.9.9 if ever occurs Apple will offer OSX 11
so see, i do understand the numeration scheme
but getting back to the thought of
OSXI
perhaps finally X is simply Unix
as is iPad 4 is just iPad
OS becomes obviously redundant to state
hence iOS7 is just 7
– now smoke that
OS Xi is more likely.
Really when has it been explained by Apple tat we will progress beyond .9 to .10 rather than move to 11 in whatever set of numerals one prefers. Seems to me that either move would be an option though moving to 11 or whatever would show a leap forward which is probably due as the two operating systems merge.
OS X + iOS = X ?
Apple makes it fun to speculate. What other company cares so much about the message embedded in its signage? Apple generates more attention from its annual WWDC banners than most companies generate with a multi-million dollar TV advertisement campaign.
OSX – iOS = Xi?
‘…seems to depict an ocean wave’. Seems? Is this commentator blind? Of course it’s an ocean wave! He should have gone to Specsavers…
It’s an X! This guy is an idiot. Talk about desperate for something to write about. Hit whore.
The background behind the X is a wave
Spoiler alert!
It’s a ‘sea-change’, probably Helvetica throughout.
Maybe an objective-C change
Sea Lion!
Blue shark
Bull shark
Tiger shark
Hammerhead shark
Mako shark
Great white shark
Just jumped the shark my friend
Manic Minnow
Land Shark
YES! “Sea Lion,” followed later by other cool sea creature names would be a great transition from the big cats.
However, I would be MORE excited if that banner said “XI”…
Yes, looking forward to XI also
Catfish!
Blowfish!?!?
The Wave of the future!
Love the big wave but wrong design… You could also see it as a “no wave” sign… As the x on the wave may just be interpreted as cross out.
no aqua?
It actually looks like a wave in the painting that commemorates the drowning of the Gengish Khan Japanese invasion fleet.
The imagery of the banner is quite apparent to me. Since I’m an artist (oil painting/photography), I saw the meaning immediately. The wave with the X superimposed on it means that OS X is bye-bye. Say hello to “OS 11.” You heard it here first. 😀
Yeah that’s what I thought too. Which would also make the shark monikers apropos.
That said, I’d still use OS X 10.9, one final cat, and I think Sabretooth is perfect as the final cat. But I don’t run Apple and they didn’t ask me, so who knows?
Maybe the big announcement is for that Buckaroo Bonzai sequel. We have to be going to Planet 10…and, hopefully, real soon.
OSX Surfer …
Looks good to me.
“Where a whole new world is developing”
-Could be a new OS XI (new breed of animal)
-Apple TV app
-iRadio?
The wave could be
-goodbye
-new wave of products and services that are worthy
-a sign of a comeback
–
Waves crash or break. Not a good omen?
In my mind the X in OS X stands for its Unix underpinnings. It’s coincidental that X stands for version 10 of the OS as well.
Hmm. So if Apple progresses to XI, wouldn’t it be great to consider it the NeXt step beyond UNIX after all these years? It could happen! 😉
Why is no one talking about iWork. Isn’t it about time that got updated given it is 4 years old now!?
Radio wave!
40 comments about a sign.
Tomorrow we’ll have something more substantive to talk about.
For newbies:
The WWDC keynote is Monday at 10 AM PT, 1 PM ET. It is scheduled to be 2 hours long. Hmm! What’s going to fill two hours of talking, I wonder! 😀
Adobe seems very keen to introduce its upcoming LightRoom (and take pre orders), so it just might be time to welcome the new Aperture today
At least I hope so 🙂
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