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It's in keeping with their "Tick-Tock" naming since Snow Leopard: Leopard (Tick) -> SnowLeopard (Tock) Lion -> Mountain Lion Mavericks -> ...(uuhhh...whoops?

It'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 ago
Mavericks 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 ago
  I 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.
  - ivm 9y ago
    And put a suburb photo on a wallpaper?
    - euyyn 9y ago
      Imagine it: http://www.mijusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Los-Gatos.jpg http://www.mijusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Los-Gatos.j... :D
- Razengan 9y ago
  Mavericks was when OS X/macOS became free (as in no $$ to update to.)