“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
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!