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Yeah, everyone's making a big deal out of the name. Is "Sierra" some sort of stoner reference I don't understand, or is it really just the fact that they put th
by apetresc 9y ago
Yeah, everyone's making a big deal out of the name. Is "Sierra" some sort of stoner reference I don't understand, or is it really just the fact that they put the word "High" in there? Is that really how grade-school we've all gotten?
- empath75 9y agoI think it's half funny because of the 'high' and half funny because it's just a really lazy naming scheme.
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- biggc 9y agoHow is it any different from the large cat naming theme?
- curun1r 9y agoIt'd be fine if it were actually consistent and they picked different locations. But 'High Sierra' is a region, 'Yosemite' is a park in that region and 'El Capitan' is a large rock in that park (side note...a large rock that was climbed without ropes this weekend...Alex Honnold is both insane and a huge inspiration). They've essentially made the last three releases about the same place. It's lazy and inconsistent. And it's not like there's a shortage of exquisite places in California. Big Sur, Shasta, Lassen, Mendocino, Lost Coast, San Simeon, Joshua Tree, Catalina, Monterrey Bay...just off the top of my head, I've named 9 better California places that they could have used for their releases. It'd also be kinda funny for them to jab at Microsoft's advertising and have an OS X Mojave, since it would fit with their naming scheme.
- toyg 9y agoSome of those names I recognise from other IT-related products (Mendocino, Catalina, Monterey...). Generally speaking, naming products after CA landmarks has been done for 30+ years in this industry, it just feels very unoriginal. I think it's a desperate attempt from Apple to remind you (or themselves) that they "design in California", despite manufacturing in China, selling in Europe, and stashing profits in Bermuda; and to suggest the OS is "hard as a rock", as opposed to the wobbly and airy "windows". I very much preferred the big-cats theme. It humanised the OS in powerful ways, making it an extremely powerful and very intelligent animal that dominates through speed and elegance. Rocks are just dumb and static.
- palimpsests 9y agoAdvocate here; rocks are quite dynamic on geologic timescales. Also, I don't think it really makes sense to call them dumb, as that is a quality one would apply to something with a central nervous system and capacity to self-identify in conjunction with capacity for intelligence. We know that rocks don't have a CNS; if they can self-identify the mechanism for this and their experience is obviously quite alien to our own so it doesn't make much sense to project human qualities onto them without more information. It is true that the qualities of rocks are quite different than those of large felines.
- qqg3 9y agoPlace > Park > Region seems pretty consistent to me, shows a sense of relationship between the different versions and that they are closely linked together rather than being entirely different
- jballanc 9y agoIt's in keeping with their "Tick-Tock" naming since Snow Leopard: Leopard (Tick) -> SnowLeopard (Tock) Lion -> Mountain Lion Mavericks -> ...(uuhhh...whoops?) Yosemite -> El Capitan Sierra -> High Sierra
- toyg 9y agoMavericks was a work-in-progress shitshow of a release, that's probably why it never got a "tock". Apple was keen to let people forget.
- goatforce5 9y agoI think they missed a trick by not naming Mavericks as Los Gatos, which is a suburb quite close to Cupertino and has some connections to Apple. Los Gatos translates as "The Cats" so it seems like it would have been a nice way to end the big cat naming scheme.
- Razengan 9y agoMavericks was when OS X/macOS became free (as in no $$ to update to.)
- Apocryphon 9y agoIt's a dead horse of a running joke that C-Fed's been flogging for the past few WWDCs
- benologist 9y agohttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717/
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- jordache 9y agoNo it's actually an entire region in E. California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology_of_the_Sierra_Nevada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology_of_the_Sierra_Nevada I hate how Apple's utilization of these public domain names hijacks the search results for them... Now Sierra will forever be associated with a crappy OS. The background photo of Mac HighSierra I would reckon is probably somewhere along the 395 Corridor, probably June Lakes.
- tachion 9y agoTwo things if I may say: for one, Sierra being 'crappy OS' is extremely personal point of view, such as mine, when I think it's a best OS for desktop computers available to date. Second, I really think Sierra 'as in the mountains' is going to outlive Sierra 'as in the macOS iteration'. I've far more faith in the mountain being there long after humanity, not to mention some OS from 21st century ;)
- weaksauce 9y agoThere's a few... It's called High Sierra, the guy on stage made a joke about this OS being "fully baked" and this is the first major release of macos that recreational pot has been enacted in California.
- orbitur 9y agoPart of the joy (for some people) of the keynote is Hair Force One's Dad Jokes™. It's never been high-brow, nor is there any attempt at it.