Apple has a long history of naming its new versions of the OS X operating system after successively larger cats, but after eleven years of this, Cupertino’s got a problem on their hands: they’ve pretty much run out of big Earth cats.
Far beyond the Oort cloud, however, there are even bigger and more ferocious cats on the loose. Feel the magic and hear the roar of OS X Lion-O, Third Earth’s most popular operating system.
Featuring Snarf, your Mac’s cowering new digital sidekick, revolutionary Sight Beyond iSight technology, and i of Thundera compatibility, OS X Lion-O is the best Mac operating system yet.
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John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
13 responses to “Introducing OS X Lion-O, Apple’s Next Mac Operating System [Humor]”
Ok, that’s actually funny.
cats and apple. match made in internet…is there heaven on/in the web?
cats and apple. match made in internet…is there heaven on/in the web?
hahahaha screw you! I actually got really excited for a moment.
Cute, but you’re one month early.
I’m disappointed it is only a joke!
“successively larger cats”
Have you ever considered asking yourself if something is true or just a figment of your imagination before publishing it?
To arrange them by size from smallest to largest it would be
10.6 Snow Leopard
10.0 Cheetah
10.5 Leopard
10.1/10.3/10.8 (Puma/Panther/Mountain Lion)
10.2 Jaguar
10.7 Lion
10.4 Tiger
Nah. Snoop Lion.
How about “Pussy Galore”?
…So…where can we grab the lovely desktop background?
I’m holding out for OS X Cougar.
Bam: http://susyspider.deviantart.com/art/Thundercats-Logo-153522807
Relax. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae#Extant_species
There is enough there remaining to last us well until North Korea takes out Cupertino.