As an Apple Photos coach I think the switch to a uniform OS naming system makes a lot of sense. It will be another floppy disk or Lightning port debacle for a few months, but in the end it will make everything much more manageable for both support and for the end users. On the macOS/iOS naming, though, I’m in favor of staying the course. The OS designations have a nice graphic style and honor Apple’s history of thinking different. In the same way, I like the place naming scheme (much more than the cats) and the implied connection to California culture. Who knows how long they can run that out, but for those of us who lived through the platform wars, it creates a memorable historical journey that sequential numbers alone do not.
I’m probably in the minority on wanting to shed the California place names. Though they’re gonna run out at some point, especially since they’re seemingly unwilling to go away from Northern California places names. (Though it is a bit endearing given the death of regionalism in general.) And given the weekend’s news that it’s likely to be macOS Tahoe, it sounds like I’m gonna have to keep waiting for a bigger change there.
As an Apple Photos coach I think the switch to a uniform OS naming system makes a lot of sense. It will be another floppy disk or Lightning port debacle for a few months, but in the end it will make everything much more manageable for both support and for the end users. On the macOS/iOS naming, though, I’m in favor of staying the course. The OS designations have a nice graphic style and honor Apple’s history of thinking different. In the same way, I like the place naming scheme (much more than the cats) and the implied connection to California culture. Who knows how long they can run that out, but for those of us who lived through the platform wars, it creates a memorable historical journey that sequential numbers alone do not.
I’m probably in the minority on wanting to shed the California place names. Though they’re gonna run out at some point, especially since they’re seemingly unwilling to go away from Northern California places names. (Though it is a bit endearing given the death of regionalism in general.) And given the weekend’s news that it’s likely to be macOS Tahoe, it sounds like I’m gonna have to keep waiting for a bigger change there.