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The marketing names for macOS and OSX have always been random other than having a general theme to it. The OS in most cases just refers to itself by the number

• masklinn 4y ago
  > The marketing names for macOS and OSX have always been random other than having a general theme to it. Not entirely true: two of the cats were name variations of their predecessors to express an intent of limited end-user / feature updates and a focus on refinement (even though taxonomically the cats have basically no relationships outside of being cats, mountain lions aren’t even in the same genus as lions)
  • dagmx 4y ago
    That's fair. In a similar vein, there was also Sierra and High Sierra.
  • Tsiklon 4y ago
    In a sense they sort of did continue this style of convention with Yosemite and El Capitan (the latter being in the former), Sierra and High Sierra. It’s only in the last few releases that the dart board has come out
    • rsfinn 4y ago
      Since they moved macOS off version 10.x (finally), "Apple's crack marketing team" left the desert (Mojave) for the Pacific coast. Unfortunately, they didn't plan the trip carefully, so they started at Big Sur with macOS 11, went north to Monterey for macOS 12, then turned around and headed back south to Ventura for macOS 13. At least those locations are in alphabetical order -- but with Ventura they seem to have painted themselves into a corner. So will macOS 14 be further south (Carlsbad?) or back north (Eureka?) -- stay tuned...
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