“With OS X Mavericks, Apple ended the era of naming their desktop operating system after big cats,” E. Werner Reschke writes for T-GAAP.
“OS X Mavericks is the first in a series of naming conventions focused on areas around California,” Reschke writes. “avericks is a surfing town on the coast of California, near Apple head quarters.”
Reschke writes, “So what is next? Isn’t that always the question after the launch of a new product passes? What will the name of the next OS X release be? Here’s a few we thought of and a few we thought Apple should stay away from…”
Among the names Reschke suggests that Apple avoid: “OS X Compton.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: OS X Watts.
With that name, Apple could try some sort of play on battery life, solar power, fuels cells, etc. or perhaps some retro marketing tie-in with Sanford and Son — the idea of which is, admittedly, more than a bit strange, yet somehow strangely intriguing.
Or, how about “OS X Thunderbolt Peak?”
Anyone else have any ideas, good or bad?
Related article:
Mac traffic from next-gen OS X 10.10 growing as Apple works on Mavericks successor – November 1, 2013
Cupertino, of course!
I like Cupertino too but for strangeness how about OSX Zzyzx? ZZYZX a small road/spa/UC research station off Interstate 10 in the Mojave Desert, CA
Zzyzx – Too bad you can’t use proper nouns in Scrabble.
Cupertino is great, but Mac OS X version 10.10 is cumbersome. Obviously they are having a hard time giving up the “X” which is creating a number jam as they avoid the even worse name of Mac OS XI 11.0.
They should rebrand it xOS 1.0, Cupertino.
Not sure why I got down votes, Apple has a real naming/branding conundrum on their hands since Mac OS X has become a recognizable brand name, even though the X represents the “major” version number 10.xx which will eventually need to be incremented.
Going to “xOS” would keep the “X” while eliminating its use as a version number, and have an obvious similarity to “iOS”. They could use xOS 11.0 for the next big upgrade.
xOS is an excellent idea!! Well thought out. OSXI just seems strange.
Agreed, xOS is a great idea! iOS and xOS. Perfect 🙂
Mavericks is NOT a “town,” and I think Apple will avoid names of towns and cities, and focus on inspiring California LOCATIONS. And considering they chose Mavericks first, I don’t think Apple will use anything that is too obvious and well known, like Yosemite.
Hahaha but they did choose Yosemite! This is so funny, looking back at your comment haha
OS X South Central
OS X Oakland
OS X Skid Row Los Angeles
OS X Modesto
OS X Stockton
OS X Inglewood
OS X East Los Angeles
OS X Pacoima
OS X Crenshaw District
OS X Baldwin Hills
OS X Boyle Heights
OS X 90210
OS X Pebble Beach
OS X Glass Beach
55 Reasons Why California sucks!
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/55-reasons-why-california-is-the-worst-state-in-america
Don’t you live in California???
how about: Coachella.. you can get it months before you know what’s in it!
“Commandments,” of course.
Who says its Californian places
I say it’s surf breaks
Pipeline, Bells beach, etc
Also avoid OS X Lompoc & OS X Cucamonga plus many others.
I vote FOR OS X Yosemite, OS X Golden Gate, OS X Sequoia & OS X Redwoods. Then OS X Tahoe, OS X Palm Springs, OS X Joshua Tree, OS X Hearst Castle, OS X Napa, OS X Coronado & OS X Lassen Volcanic. Then maybe OS X Madonna Inn. 🙂
Oh man and then there’s OSX Big Sur!
Yes. 26 miles away from my house.
OS X Nepenthe
Comes with a free Ambrosia Burger!
OS X Black Dahlia
OS X Rollo Tomasi
OS X Laguna
OS X Catalina
OS X Redwoods
OS X Napa
Hotel California…maybe not.
I like OS X Redwoods. That sounds like something Apple would use.
I don’t like any of the names the article listed. I do also like OS X Big Sur. Someone in the comments made mention that they thought Apple said they were sticking with surfing locations. Anyone remember this?
I can’t believe no one has said Sonoma thus far in this thread.
I like Mojave, Laguna, Capistrano, Palomar, Malibu, Salinas, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Shasta and hey, maybe the ultimate OS X version – Cupertino.
They should definitely avoid Alcatraz.
That’ll be two cents
dmz
OS X:
Shasta
Yosemite
Malibu
Tahoe
Sequoia
Coronado
Etc.
Android can have:
Fresno
after 15 years and 10 operating systems, perhaps it’s time to retire OSX (ten) and move on to Eleven
Will still use Cally place names…
I think they already have moved on to eleven if not in name, but in programs and integration with ios. They can call it Dos, D for Desktop or Mos for Mac. Maybe the Dos is not so good.
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don’t know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you make ten a little louder, make that the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pauses] These go to eleven.
How about OS X SLO for San Luis Obispo, the “Happiest Place in America.” Or, for trivia buffs, OS X Nipomo.
Cayucos
Santa Margarita
Shell Beach
Probably would stay away from SLO (pronounced by students at Cal Poly as “slow”, for obvious reasons .
Mavericks is not a town, it’s a location.
Though I still think of it as a number of
wild horses, but another company has
had the dibs on ‘mustang’ for about
fifty years.
I’m still steamed that they didn’t go with “Sea Lion”
as it is much cleverer…. and much less boutique
surfshop-ish. You know, the place where you pay five times
as much for everything related to surfing…because
they don’t want the ruffian shoplifter bank robber surfers
like the guys from “Point Break” in there. The boutique
surfshop wants surfers who don’t have rough hands.
They want the venture capitalists or software development
team leaders who get up at 4AM to surf before work and
then make sure everyone at work knows they do it.
This place is right next to a Starbucks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29
Yep, that’s the place!
(turns to audience)
Folks, let’s all give a big hand to our research department
for cuing up the wiki entry for us to see.
(sound of enthused applause)
Y’know…. if you look at the satellite pics
you can just about make out the Starbucks
location.
Many thanks, Roving Skeptic!!
(audience applauds again, with a little less fervor)
I still feel the cats were better names than non-personal landscapes. Apple should have sticked to animals. If all cats are gone, start with the dogs. Much better than green waves. I like the new version a lot despite the not so cool name.
The cats weren’t gone, there was serval and mynx and
ocelot; then the housecats: tabby, calico, Siamese.
The only thing that was gone was Steve Jobs who
would have put the kibosh on “Mavericks” in two
seconds. “I told you guys, every OS X version is
gonna be a cat! When we get to OS 11 we can talk
about horses or characters played by Tom Cruise
or whatever you guys are thinking. I really hate it
when you clowns aren’t consistent with the program,
sheesh! Do I also have to tell you to keep the software
intuitive and supportive of previous versions?”
Mt. Diablo
What’s wrong with Iowa?
What’s wrong with Iowa? Is that a rhetorical question, or do you really want an answer?
No, that wasn’t rhetorical. I’ve visited Iowa. It’s beautiful.
What’s right with Iowa?
From a Gopher. 😏
I’ll tell ya what’s right with Iowa. For starters there’s the Amana Colonies. They’re like the Amish except they’re not squirrely about machines and electricity. In fact, they liked machines and electricity so much that for a while they made high quality fridges and microwave ovens that were sold at Sears or given away as prizes on game shows.
Then the business was sold the to Raytheon. They now
use the refrigeration technology to keep dead aliens
in deep freeze. They use the microwave ovens to bounce
deadly prismatic beams of tuned energy off of low clouds
against targets in the Middle East. It’s a tricky shot,
so they hire ex-pool hall hustlers to aim the big
crystals.
Corn
Sorry!
Come on, is not obvious. OS X Cupertino of course.
Come on, is not obvious. OS X Cupertino of course.
oops. already mentioned by others….
Mavericks is not a town. It is a surfing spot. Other surfing spots would:
Malibu
Pipeline
Hanalei
Rincon
Cavaliers
Byron
Tofino
Lima
Places to avoid might be:
Watergate
Pasta Point
Cloud Nine
OS X Goose
My favorite California towns, though arguably they are also “locations”:
Los Baños
Weed Patch
Oildale
more here…
http://voices.yahoo.com/weird-quirky-peculiar-names-towns-cities-usa-8890449.html
OS X Skywalker Ranch!
OS X Barker Ranch
OS X Tijuana Drug Tunnel
(well… that’s probably stretching it…
I want them to name it something and
then the name turns out to have these
embarrassing connotations that people
working in an insular rarefied-air environment
wouldn’t have the gutter depraved savvy to be
aware of…)
OS X O’Farrell Theater
Bring back Mac OS X Tempo from the OS 8 days!
children names to avoid – Werner
and the “E.” name. Must be bad not to want to use it.
If we’re gonna go with Californian surf spots, names could include:
Bolinas – or the Channel, the Patch, and the Groin 🙂
Santa Cruz
Steamer Lane
Pismo
Ventura
Venice
Malibu
Ocean Beach
Huntington
Zuma (probably too close to Zune…)
Trestles
Newport – or “the Wedge”
Rincon
Swamis
Blacks
I thought this was about surfing sites. So I say Malibu, Pismo, and any of the rest.
It wasn’t code-named Mavericks for a place, but after a people. The ‘Mavericks’ represent those who are out in front, taking risks, pushing the envelope.
Too bad for your notion that from the initial announcement on, Apple clearly stated that it was named for a particular surfing beach near Half Moon Bay, CA.
“… Apple clearly stated that it was named for a particular surfing beach near Half Moon Bay, CA.”
I thought it was interesting that the Mavericks competition this year, started the same week as the Mavericks release.
Tahoe and Sequoia for two.
OS Escalade.
OMG, the comment threading in WordPress is a worthless POS!
A great surfing beach in Hawaii is Rubber Ducky.
But save Sunset for the last os x release before os xi