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New macOS is macOS 11 – OS X is over

• mc32 6y ago
  Makes sense to me. But why didn’t it become 11 when they changed over to Intel?
• sevencolors 6y ago
  Current version does not say OS X. Just says: macOS Catalina Version 10.15.5
  • xsmasher 6y ago
    It changed from "OS X" to "macOS" in 2016.
    • neximo64 6y ago
      You forget X is 10 in Roman numerals. Mac OS was still OS 10.x
• goofballlogic 6y ago
  Is there any indication that the numbering change reflects a significant technical shift (eg preparing to target ARM specifically)? Or is this just aesthetics?
  • gregoriol 6y ago
    Someone just got tired of writing "10." in the marketing team, also they'll be able to have a versioning more like iOS which macOS copies already much in 11.x
  • htk 6y ago
    I’d say because it added support to their ARM chips.
• Yhippa 6y ago
  I remember Steve Jobs saying this was going to be a 20-year OS. They came pretty darn close.
• Slartie 6y ago
  Next question: are they keeping it at 11.x now or are they just adopting the same numbering scheme that brought us Chrome 82 and Firefox 76?
  • gregoriol 6y ago
    Probably like iOS
• sharkfinsoupmix 6y ago
  20 years from now: Introducing macOS 9000000.13.0 Pro Platinum. Now with a more emphatic, less mercurial, less violent, and less passive-aggressive AI because each device contains 47% more genetically-engineered neurons. Each device is guaranteed to be personally-imprinted and infatuated with only you and do everything you need it to do. At what point do version numbers become meaningless? Why not just rolling releases with a major number and a patch number? Or if the goal is to make it seem like fewer releases are happening, why not 4 components?
• js2 6y ago
  Apple switched the name from "OS X" to "macOS" with 10.12 (Sierra). "OS X" has been over for a while now.