“Apple is playing an interesting game when it comes to naming OS X versions. They’re all cats of one type or another, starting with Cheetah and OS X 10.0,” Jesse Mincey writes for Bohemian Boomer. “The latest is 10.8, Mountain Lion.”
“The next version, OS X 10.9, has yet to be revealed and the clock is ticking. Apple has promised more frequent updates to the Mac’s OS and the summer of 2013 is fast approaching,” Mincey writes. “Two questions float around in my subconscious. First, what will Apple name OS X 10.9? Second, what will Apple do for OS X 11. I sense a huge quake of change in OS X after the next cat name is released.”
Mincey writes, “High on the list of expectations from among the Apple punditry for the next cat is OS X Lynx, but others could show up, including Bobcat, Cougar, or Ocelot.”
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Mac OS X versions, names/codenames, and release dates:
• Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: July 25, 2012
• Mac OS X 10.7 Lion : July 20, 2011
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: August 28, 2009
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: October 26, 2007
• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: April 29, 2005
• Mac OS X 10.3 Panther: October 24, 2003
• Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar: August 24, 2002
• Mac OS X 10.1 Puma: September 25, 2001
• Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah: March 24, 2001
• Mac OS X Public Beta: September 13, 2000
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So, where’s Apple’s next OS X and what will it be named? – March 11, 2013
Calico
Who cares? It’s not that Apple hasn’t already made the decision already.
It’s just FUN stuffy pants… 😉
Absolutely.
Puddy Tat!
The best yet
Sylvester
“I think …
I think I see …
I think I see a Pussycat!”
–Tweety–
“I think …
I think I see …
I think I see a Pussycat!”
– Tweety –
Kitteh.
Good Cartman take…
lolcat
Mac OS
it’s time
Agreed. Probably already decided but I guess it gives some people fodder to chew on while they’re watching their soap operas.
But….how about Saber? Trouble then is they’d have to buy the rights to the Pyramid tablet.
Copy Cat.
No, Samsung Copyrighted that name years ago.
That would first be “Cat” then “Copy Cat”.
Leopard ==> Snow Leopard
Lion ==> Mountain Lion
Can anyone think of other One word and/related Two word cat types? 😀
Meerkat … obviously (if you are in the UK)
Serval, a small but very beautiful cat.
Tiger Shark and then move into the shark family after that. They are powerful predators that always keep swimming that can swim in schools, packs or on their own.
Honey Badger! Cause Mac user just don’t give a S*%T!
I’d prefer they dropped the whole cat thing entirely, and I love cats. Both Puma and Cheetah never made it out of Cupertino, and since the cheetah is the fastest cat, I’d not argue they can’t use it again, publicly this time.
But, if they do insist upon keeping the feline, my choice is Sabertooth, extinct, yes, but awesome.
Cheetah did make it out. It was the internal name (and the name used by *many* outside Apple as well) for OS X 10.0. It got the name Cheetah because it truly was soooo much faster than the public beta release (which was frighteningly slow).
Extinct might be kind of appropriate since Apple is so iOS-centric now. A little extinct, but totally awesome!
I’d vote for Sabetooth, but ONLY if that version had *full*, latest revision support for all the standards:
Open GL 4.2 (or then current)
Open CL 1.2 (or then current)
CUDA 5 (or then current)
WiFi 802.11ac (or then current)
Bluetooth 4.0 (or then current)
ZFS v28 (or then current)
etc.
etc.
Pussy.
Pussy Galore (Goldfinger). 😉
I musht be dreaming…
“Sea Lion.” It’s time to change to sea creatures with cool names, with “Sea Lion” as the transition release 10.9. Mac OS “eleven” (the “huge quake of change”) the can continue with Orca or Baracuda or Stingray, etc.
“Cougar” is the best name left, but it’s basically a mountain lion. “Bobcat” and “Ocelot” and “Lynx” are kind of weak. Hence, there are no good big cat names left.
From Wikipedia, a list of cat breeds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cat_breeds. Take your pick!
Mr Jinx? How bout dropping the cat names altogether and call it OSX Obama Rocks? Tim Cook would love that! Or OSX Blame Bush? Or OSX God is Dead? Those would draw some attention and fit Cook’s political agenda quite nicely!
Do the world a favor, jump off the nearest bridge as soon as possible..
Truth, do you really need to attack so? Maybe iMaki has a lower IQ than you and can’t help the fact that he’s a conservative dick-head. Chill.
Road-kill. : D
Duh. Jesse Mincey showed how he knows little about Mac OS X when he asked “what will Apple do for OS X 11?”. We in the Mac community know they’re version numbers, not decimals (Tiger went up to 10.4.11). Hence the one after 10.9 will be numbered 10.10.
Yes, the version after 10.9 can be 10.10. However, it is also true that the time is ripe for a major revision of the Mac’s OS, on the order of magnitude of the Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X transition. Hence, the speculation that the release after 10.9 will be “eleven dot zero,” is reasonable.
Duh. ‘Jesse’ Mincey is a she. She’s married to Jeffrey Mincey, a frequent Mac blogger.
I like Lynx.
After that, let’s change to more exotic creatures. Sting Ray, Shark, Tarantula, Cobra. I hear Microsoft will start using similar names. Next up is Windows 9 ‘Rat’.
Hey,
How about Liger…
A mix of Lion and Tiger.
Polecat
Mustela nigripes
There’s Lion then Mountain Lion
There’s Leopard then Snow Leopard
How about … Pink Panther ?
Who said it had to be an existing cat (though they have up to this point)? How about OS 9: Sabretooth.
Manx
How about “9 Lives”
Or change from Cats to Dogs!
“K-9”
Ocelot.
OS X 10.9 Sammy Davis Jr., the coolest cat I know!
OS X Landing strip!
OS X 11.0 = Full on 3D
why not the infamous “Grumpy Cat”
No matter what the name will be, we should think a minute of silence about those poor people who still have to use Windows, especially Windows 8. Those poor people!
Cheshire
Grumpy Cat should be at the head of the list. Grumpy because of the more window like, less intuitive system they have been pumping out for the last operating system upgrades….
Liger
Meh!
I prefer a swap to toothed whales… Orca, Dolphin, Porpoise, etc
They’re all supremely capable, are excellently adapted for 7 tenths of the planet, and they eat other operating systems for breakfast.
Let’s go with a snake theme for OX XI…
Or maybe switch to birds of prey? Hawk, Falcon, Peregrine Falcon for those not so big upgrades. And the year Microsoft implodes and dies, we use Vulture.
Harder to guess what animal they will go to next more than what cat this time around.
With the expected death of skeuomorphism, possibly Jony Ive will also kill off the cat naming in favour of simple minimalism. It will just be called ‘10.9’.
Not Cougar! Sounds too much like an aging OS looking for some young OS features! Hmm .. isn’t OS X getting a lot of iOS features lately? Maybe it is Cougar! 😉
Calico
ThunderCat, baby!
OSX 10.9 Lives
Nice.
How about the author understanding that summer goes into September 22,2013.
Sabertooth
Sex Kitten
Well what will be interesting is if they repeat the same cat again. They have used the (Puma concolor) mountain lion or Puma or Panther all names for the same cat before. I would look at Ocelot, Lynx, or Caracal.
Well since they used Puma concolor three times, Mountain lion, Puma and panther, it is time for a new cat. How about Lynx, or Caracal, or Ocelot
Battle Cat
Snagglepuss
Celine ( Cat Woman / Batman )
Samurai Pizza Cat!
Felix
Garfield
Bill The Cat (Bloom County)
Tigger!
There is only one “big cat” remaining and they have already duplicated one–Puma and Mountain Lion. All that remains is the “Clouded Leopard”, all per the Nat Geographic issue photographed, except for, the Snow Leopard, at the great Houston Zoo.
So, will it be medium cats, dogs or monkeys at OS 11?
I say KEYBOARD CAT.
Seriously…OCELOT would be a good one.
Waiting for Pussycat!
LIGER !!!
Enough with cats!
Mountain Lion has shepherded X to the pinnacle of this earthly place, to be swept away by a bird of prey; species raptor,
Peregrine, Lanner, Merlin, and kestrel are all falcons.
Cats have 9 lives, there are currently 9 versions of OS X too (10.0, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8). maybe they will name it after something else.
Like “ken1w” said:
~”Tuesday, March 12, 2013 – 12:02 pm
“Sea Lion.” It’s time to change to sea creatures with cool names, with “Sea Lion” as the transition release 10.9. Mac OS “eleven” (the “huge quake of change”) the can continue with Orca or Baracuda or Stingray, etc.”~
This could possibly be the case too, as a sea lion is not a cat, but refers to one!
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: July 25, 2012
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion : July 20, 2011
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: August 28, 2009
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: October 26, 2007
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: April 29, 2005
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther: October 24, 2003
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar: August 24, 2002
Mac OS X 10.1 Puma: September 25, 2001
Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah: March 24, 2001
Mac OS X Public Beta: September 13, 2000
They say a cat has 9 lives. OS X 10.0 Cheetah was the first. As 10.8 Mountain Lion was the 9th, maybe it’s time for something different?
Whatever they call it, I look forward to it.