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It's properly spelled/stylized macOS. Am I anal about this? I have the feeling that Apple made a mistake with the name; it's so often that I see it misspelled
by cerberusss 7y ago
It's properly spelled/stylized macOS. Am I anal about this?
I have the feeling that Apple made a mistake with the name; it's so often that I see it misspelled or oddly stylized.
- icedchai 7y agoThe mistake was having a previous product called "Mac OS" (OS 9.x and lower) then calling the new one "macOS", which is too similar. I still call it OS X.
- cerberusss 7y agoYeah, but what's funny is that these aren't just old timers that do the misspelling. The OS X moniker was perhaps coolest of all. But I have to admit that I pronounced it as "Oh Ess Ex", until someone explained the X was a Roman numeral and pronounced "Oh Ess Ten".
- icedchai 7y agoBasically everyone I know calls it is "Oh Ess Ex". We know it's 10. We just don't like it!
- mantap 7y agoIt's Apple's fault for writing things like: "OS X 10.9". If the X is a 10 then it should be "OS X.9", the fact that both the X and the 10 are there proves that the X is pronounced "eks" :)
- nxrabl 7y agoWhile I sympathize with the prescriptivist impulse, I can't help but feel that your conscientiousness is misspent on protecting the branding of one of the world's richest corporations.
- cerberusss 7y agoSometimes I reminisce about the good old times when I had colleagues saying "X Windows". I could then educate them and offer them the choice of either "X" or "the X window system".