How Apple names things

Post by pavo-etc » Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 10:44 AM UTC

rob74 wrote: post #46

tacker2000 wrote: post #19

This reads like some typical fanboi stuff. There are a lot of things to also hate about apples naming schemes, just look at the pro, max, se nonsense they cooked up. Also the naming scheme of Mac OS versions, i can never figure out which one came before or after the other, there is no rhyme or reason. Why dont they use alphabetical sorted names? Or years/numbers like Windows…?

Ok, Microsoft is not a shining example for naming either, I mean, they had a product called "Windows 8" which actually had version number 6.2 - do I need to say more? At least they fixed this with the first release of Windows 10 - and then got rid of the version numbers in the very next release (at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_vers... ).

Post by codetrotter » Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 10:47 AM UTC

dingaling wrote: post #68

codetrotter wrote: post #61

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> How do you know which cat or geological feature corresponds to which version number? You don't need to know that. It does not matter. These human names are for marketing. They have no significance other than that.

> You don't need to know that. It does not matter. When a vendor says "we are dropping support for MacOS High Sierra and earlier" then it does matter. Does that include Big Sur? Catalina? Mavericks ? One has to go and look up the corresponding version numbers to determine that.

Post by sbuk » Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 10:57 AM UTC

nier wrote: post #70

sbuk wrote: post #22

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> * Also the naming scheme of Mac OS versions, i can never figure out which one came before or after the other, there is no rhyme or reason. Why dont they use alphabetical sorted names? Or years/numbers like Windows…?* They do. Ventura is macOS 13. In fact, when they dropped OS X, they did a bit in the key note explaining that instead of it being OS X 10.16 Catalina, it would now now be macOS 11 Catalina. See  > Abo…

macOS 11 was named Big Sur while Catalina was version 10.15. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_operating_system...

Post by saagarjha » Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 11:00 AM UTC

knolan wrote: post #65

One of the nice things I liked about OS X when I moved from Windows/Ubuntu around 2010 was the clear but playful naming of apps and utilities. They seemed to have presence. The large and beautiful high resolution icons helped too. In Windows Disk Management was hidden away and searching for it would return a nebulous list with long winded descriptions but never name Disk Management forcing me to carefully read each r…

Post by hnlmorg » Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 11:04 AM UTC

codetrotter wrote: post #59

hnlmorg wrote: post #51

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Why even have a version name then if it’s not intended to communicate anything? I too find their naming conventions confusing. Apple TV is another example. It could refer to 3 different things depending on how it’s used. I have an Apple TV and an Apple TV subscription but I have no idea which is technically called what. I also disagree with their casual use of the term “Pro” too. But at least that isn’t an Apple spec…

> Why even have a version name then if it’s not intended to communicate anything? It does communicate something. But it's not for comparing release dates of versions. It's for marketing. Go to Apples website, navigate to the Mac section and then to the macOS section. That lands you on this page: https://www.apple.com/macos/ventura/ The names are used in marketing when new versions are launched. Read the page I linked…