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> What about the iBook? That wasn’t tidy. Ebooks or laptops? Back then, there were iBooks (entry-level) and PowerBooks (professional, high performance and expe

> What about the iBook? That wasn’t tidy. Ebooks or laptops? Back then, there were iBooks (entry-level) and PowerBooks (professional, high performance and expensive). There had been PowerBooks since way back in 1991, well before any ebook reader. I am not sure what your gripe is. > Or the iPhone 9? That didn’t exist. There’s a hole in the series. In what way is it a problem, and how on earth is it similar to the situation described in the parent? > Or MacOS? Versioning got a bit weird after 10.9, due the X thing. It never got weird. After 10.9.5 came 10.10.0. Version numbers are not decimals. Seriously, do you have a point apart from "Apple bad"?

lostlogin 10mo ago
You were saying that Apple is very consistent. I’m pointing out they aren’t particularly. > It never got weird. After 10.9.5 came 10.10.0. Version numbers are not decimals. They turned one of the numbers into a letter then started numbering again. There was Mac OS 9, then Mac OS X. That got incremented up past 10. You say they don’t mess around with model numbers. Yes they do, with software and hardware. I like using them both.
- kergonath 10mo ago
  > They turned one of the numbers into a letter then started numbering again. They did not. It has been MacOS X 10.0 through macOS 10.15. In never was X.1 or anything like that.
  - MBCook 10mo ago
    Right. MacOS X was the marketing name. But it was pronounced 10, just a stylization with Roman numerals. The version number the OS reported always said 10.whatever. Exactly as you said.
    - kergonath 10mo ago
      Yes, and you did sound silly when saying it out loud the official way (OS ten ten ten was a famous one, for Yosemite).
      - lostlogin 10mo ago
        I stand corrected. I thought the X(10) was part of the version number, not a prefix that got added.
        MBCook 10mo ago
        I’m not sure I hear people call MacOS X 10.10 “ten ten ten”. I think I remember them calling it “ten ten” verbally. So you’d say “MacOS ten ten”. At least that’s what I’m used to, it is entirely possible that’s what other people said and you would write it that way. No one wrote “MacOS X.10” or “MacOS X .10” but they would write “MacOS X 10.10”. So yeah it’s all a bit of a mess. There’s a reason people often use the name of the release, like Snow Leopard or Tahoe, instead of the number numbers.

lostlogin 10mo ago

You were saying that Apple is very consistent. I’m pointing out they aren’t particularly. > It never got weird. After 10.9.5 came 10.10.0. Version numbers are not decimals. They turned one of the numbers into a letter then started numbering again. There was Mac OS 9, then Mac OS X. That got incremented up past 10. You say they don’t mess around with model numbers. Yes they do, with software and hardware. I like using them both.

kergonath 10mo ago
> They turned one of the numbers into a letter then started numbering again. They did not. It has been MacOS X 10.0 through macOS 10.15. In never was X.1 or anything like that.
- MBCook 10mo ago
  Right. MacOS X was the marketing name. But it was pronounced 10, just a stylization with Roman numerals. The version number the OS reported always said 10.whatever. Exactly as you said.
  - kergonath 10mo ago
    Yes, and you did sound silly when saying it out loud the official way (OS ten ten ten was a famous one, for Yosemite).
    - lostlogin 10mo ago
      I stand corrected. I thought the X(10) was part of the version number, not a prefix that got added.
      - MBCook 10mo ago
        I’m not sure I hear people call MacOS X 10.10 “ten ten ten”. I think I remember them calling it “ten ten” verbally. So you’d say “MacOS ten ten”. At least that’s what I’m used to, it is entirely possible that’s what other people said and you would write it that way. No one wrote “MacOS X.10” or “MacOS X .10” but they would write “MacOS X 10.10”. So yeah it’s all a bit of a mess. There’s a reason people often use the name of the release, like Snow Leopard or Tahoe, instead of the number numbers.