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When you have a name for over a decade, you tend to have it hard coded in a bunch of places...
On the other hand, the official name was ' Mac OS X' until 2012.
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'macOS' is just too much of an affectation to ask for in styling capitalization. You'll notice a lot of people resisting it, defiantly writing 'MacOS'.
Not really. "iOS" is standard and no resistance has been noted.
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I always preferred OS X over any of the similar names... I hate that they changed it back to MacOS
OS X has always suffered from all-to-common misreading, however. They traded that for a likely-to-be all-too-common miscapitalization/misspacing.
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Either they don't want to release it or they can't (a third-party contract/NDA), at least right now. Open sourcing is often seen by big-businesses as potentially "helping" competitors undermine, replicate, sue, make interoperable wares which may threaten the "Golden Goose." It sucks, but that's the situation... lawyers can't force them to release other code unless they're caught TiVoizing some GPL 3 code or something…
I can't believe this is a serious comment. The majority of open source is crap, like 80% of it. People build what they need and forget about it. Often the code has no cohesion to the rest of the project and often it is of poor quality. Not to mention the ego's and lack of sociability of most projects. Apple didn't become the most valuable company by following that principle. Instead it took the approach of an egotist…
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'macOS' is just too much of an affectation to ask for in styling capitalization. You'll notice a lot of people resisting it, defiantly writing 'MacOS'.
Not really. "iOS" is standard and no resistance has been noted.
I wonder why they still write "OS X". Intentional or just due to somebody's lack of attention to detail?
'macOS' is just too much of an affectation to ask for in styling capitalization. You'll notice a lot of people resisting it, defiantly writing 'MacOS'.
It was often compacted to MacOS for various reasons, like brevity, keyword searchability and tagging.
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OS X has always suffered from all-to-common misreading, however. They traded that for a likely-to-be all-too-common miscapitalization/misspacing.
I always thought it was pretty clear to say "os ecks" myself, but I've heard internally / correctly people say "oh es ten". It's hard to break the habit after 5+ years though.
Reading this from the new Surface Book I bought today to replace my MacBook Pro...
I'm not sure that is constructive to the topic in any way
I am a longtime Mac user who has grown disenchanted and I suspect I am one of many.
After the back-toback announcements of the new Surface Book and the new Macbook Pro, I felt like maybe Microsoft was the more geek-friendly company and that their product was a higher end product that would meet my needs better.
So, I bought a Surface Book today and I am kind of nervous about the change.
This post happened to be the first thing I saw on HN while I was setting up the new machine.
That still may not be a constructive addition to THIS thread, but at least it isn't just brand religion.
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How do you like the Surface Book? I'm very tempted to buy one.
Microsoft gave me one at the end of my internship. It is ok. It feels really clunky when compared to a MacBook but overall I would give it a thumbs up. My biggest complaint is that it is really back-heavy, so it wants to fall over whenever I sit it on my lap. Also, the docking station has a lot of weird issues (e.g., it will just stop working sometimes if it goes to sleep until I unplug it from the wall).
It is still a little back-heavy, but I suspect the bigger battery in the new base balances it out a little more.
Reading this from the new Surface Book I bought today to replace my MacBook Pro...
How do you like the Surface Book? I'm very tempted to buy one.
Also, Windows 10 seems pretty solid.
I have a long way to go, but I am hoping that I can use the Thanksgiving break to get over the hump and be relatively productive when I get back to the office on Monday.
I am pretty committed to making the switch though. I am taking notes in case the transition is worth sharing later.