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Why do people insist on still calling macOS "OS X" (or "OS/X" for that matter)?
by stalfosknight 11mo ago
Why do people insist on still calling macOS "OS X" (or "OS/X" for that matter)?
- dpark 11mo agoWhy do people insist on calling “X” “Twitter”? When something has a name for 15 years, it tends to be pretty sticky. “OS/X”, though, that’s just someone messed up and jumbled two names together.
- incanus77 11mo agoI mean, muscle memory & fatigue may be part of it. I used MacOS for a number of years, then I used Mac OS X for 8 years, then OS X for 5 years, and now macOS for 9 years. During that time I also used Windows and Linux from time to time. Their names didn't change in a way where just calling them that was perceived as incorrect.
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- viraptor 11mo agoRebellion against meaningless name changes. Why does Apple insist on calling Mac OS an OS X, Mac OS X, macOS?
- mrits 11mo agoNot everyone cares about the marketing departments feelings
- speed_spread 11mo agoHad Apple given their OS a proper name, I assure you people would use it. You shouldn't use the "OS" moniker as part an OS's name. It's redundant, like naming your child "Human Child Jimmy". Obviously people will take all sorts of shortcuts around it, which you will not have control over, leading to weird "HC/Jim" and the likes. It's a bit like "U.S.A." not being a proper country's _name_. I mean, would you name you children "Coherent-Enough Assemblage of Bodyparts"? You keep that long-form stuff for the _description_ field! Somebody fucked up when they filled out the form, ain't no fixing it now.
- abanana 11mo agoIndeed. We in "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" made an even bigger fuckup filling out our form, particularly when the Short Name field is populated with the generic-sounding "United Kingdom" instead of a proper name.