“What name will Apple use on the next version of Mac OS X?” Ron McElfresh asks for Mac360.
“Forgive me, but I’m doing the chronological order from memory, and if memory serves me correctly, OS X launched as Puma, then Cheetah (or, Cheetah, then Puma), then Jaguar, advanced to Panther, became popular with Tiger, and finally exploded on the world scene and increased market share with Leopard,” McElfresh writes.
McElfresh writes, “If Apple sticks with a big cat naming convention then what’s left? Lion?”
McElfresh writes, “Somehow the king of the jungle seems far too cartoonish, especially after Panther, Tiger, and Leopard, one after the other ate into Microsoft’s market share… The only big cat left is Lion, and… besides, most Lions just seem to lollygag around and not do much.”
“Lions are out,” McElfresh writes, “So, what’s in? What’s left?”
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MacDailyNews Take: Ocelot.
I know. =)
Liger
Lynx
– Cheetah
– Cougar (Though tecnnically, that is a Puma)
– Lynx
– Bengal
– Bobcat
yeah, Ocelot
ocelot, lynx, cougar
COUGAR!!!!!
(insert hot older woman joke here)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal
fiercely territorial.
(Let’s keep out the riff-raff from Microsoft. Time to let them feel like an outsider)
Washington State University Cougars!!!
If they get the Zeta file system working by then they could change to OS-Z I suppose. The bad part however is that to US citizens this would sound like “Oh Ess Zee” which is kind of feminine compared to the (original) “Zed.”
Well, there is nothing to say it has to stay with a big cat…. Apple is changing lots of things as they evolve. Perhaps the naming will change too.
I vote for Cougar
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pussy!
It’s already tabby enough.
Barn Cat
They kill anything in their path.
Pussy
I like Cougar. Sounds like something that’d kill if it got the chance.
I say no on Lynx, though. Like Jaguar, it just reminds me of an Atari game system that was a commercial failure.
Lion King
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@ WAZZU
Go Cougs!
@ WAZZU
Not a good idea. All MS would have to do is call Windows 7 “Husky” and Apple would be doomed.
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Nittany Lions!
Puma
Oh, what about Tigger? (T-i-double g-Grrrr!)
Polydactyl for the new multi-touch interface.
Is Apple bounded to cats?
Even not sure if there’s gonna be any animal name to be given next time.
Could be galaxies, super novas… whatever great universal thing…
How about “Tom” for Tom and Jerry, or Garfield?
Oh, wait…those would be good for the next Vista.
What will happen when we get to OX 11?
You guys are all wrong so far.
sabertooth!