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I wonder why they still write "OS X". Intentional or just due to somebody's lack of attention to detail?
by muterad_murilax 10y ago
I wonder why they still write "OS X". Intentional or just due to somebody's lack of attention to detail?
- doomlaser 10y ago'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'.
- draw_down 10y agoOK, but this page is made by Apple.
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- terinjokes 10y agoWhen you have a name for over a decade, you tend to have it hard coded in a bunch of places...
- Ultra_64 10y agoOn the other hand, the official name was 'Mac OS X' until 2012.
- eridius 10y agoSure, but it was nearly always just referred to as "OS X", so the official renaming in 2012 was just moving it in line with how people already referred to it.
- draw_down 10y agoYeah, my company moved offices a few months back and we had the old location in a surprising number of places around the codebase.
- Bud 10y agoNot really. "iOS" is standard and no resistance has been noted.
- tedmiston 10y agoLowercased i titles are / were / have been common and comfortable though. Some of them even before iOS.
- notmything 10y agoSo if one thing is true then other similar things must be true!!!
- hultner 10y agoNo resistance is overstepping, as far as I remember a few had a hard time foregoing iPhone OS initially. But that's maybe not what you're talking about.
- astrodust 10y agoTraditionally "Mac OS" -> "[Mac] OS X" -> "macOS" It was often compacted to MacOS for various reasons, like brevity, keyword searchability and tagging.
- helthanatos 10y agoI always preferred OS X over any of the similar names... I hate that they changed it back to MacOS
- grzm 10y agoOS X has always suffered from all-to-common misreading, however. They traded that for a likely-to-be all-too-common miscapitalization/misspacing.
- tedmiston 10y agoI 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.
- grzm 10y agoLast vestiges of Roman enumeration :). Saw an article the other day that said "Part I of V". I shook my head.
- majewsky 10y agoWhy? "Part I of V" is crystal-clear. It's the nineth part of a 22-part series, preceded by "Part H" and succeeded by "Part J". :)
- DanielDent 10y agoThis is such a good example of the difference between Strongly typed and Stringly typed.
- vacri 10y agoIt was never really meant to be "OS 10", despite what the 'correct way' to say it was. Pure marketing. If it was really meant to be "OS 10", then they wouldn't have versions like "OS X 10.6", they'd just have "OS X.6" or "OS X.VI". How many people do you hear saying "OS ten ten point six"?
- rangibaby 10y agoprobably CBF updating the page to say macOS