Serial Apple leaker Jon Prosser on Thursday tweeted that Apple could rename iOS back to “iPhone OS” at next week’s Worldwide Developer Conference as the 14th of the iPhone’s operating system is previewed.
MacDailyNews broke the news of that name change six months early back in January 2010: “Apple will rename iPhone OS to “iOS” in order to “better reflect the diversity of devices that will run the operating system: iPhone, iPod touch, and future devices to be announced.”
iPhone OS.
— jon prosser (@jon_prosser) June 18, 2020
MacDailyNews Take: Of course, it would make more sense give Apple’s current naming scheme to eliminate the space and make it “iPhoneOS” to fit with space-free scheme as per iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
And, a little birdie has nodded to us as well:
yup.
— MacDailyNews (@MacDailyNews) June 18, 2020
Of course, the issue of what happens with iPod touch remains in question; will it run “iPhone OS,” “iPhoneOS,” or “iPod touch OS?” We wouldn’t expect the product to be discontinued as it was just updated a year ago (May 28, 2019).
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