Comment by mattl
3 days ago
Related. Apple is turning into Sony with their naming of stuff.
In my house I have Apple branded hardware running:
Mac OS
Mac OS X Server
Mac OS X
OS X
macOS
iOS
iPad OS
tvOS
watchOS
homeOS
audioOS
And now I’ll have the strange honor of having two Macs, one running Mac OS X Server 1.23 and one running macOS 26.
What, no A/UX or Mach?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)
Hey, you should pick up some carrier-grade Cisco routers and switches, and run IOS to tie 'em all together!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS
That’s spanning decades. The current lineup is highly consistent: macOS, iPadOS (I don’t think Apple uses a space here), tvOS, watchOS, audioOS all use product categoryOS.
homeOS doesn’t exist yet for the public, does it?
The only outlier is iOS, which should have been called phoneOS or iPhoneOS.
Why is naming an OS differently when it is actually a different OS with shared features?
What are the differences between OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra?
You listed a bunch of OS’s for other hardware.
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