Up until Mountain Lion, OS X’s “Cat” codenames kept on evolving from Cheetah to Puma to Jaguar to Panther to Tiger to Leopard. Once Lion hit, it seemed Apple had peaked, with no bigger lions to choose from, but then Cupertino surprised everyone with Mountain Lion.
Where to next, then? As the brilliant webcomic XKCD makes clear, there’s not a lot of good cat names yet, once you count out code names that have already been tech products, like Lynx or Ocelot. OS X Housecat? Please.
I’ll take OS X Saber-Toothed Jungle Cat though. Yes please.
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27 responses to “Why The Next Version Of OS X After Mountain Lion Won’t Be Named After A Cat”
OSX Mr. Meowington?
OS X LIGER
I love XKCD but this is a bit inaccurate.
OS X Longcat
OS X Calico.
Bobcat
OSX Hello Kitty ^_^
OSX Hello Kitty ^_^
OSX Tabby would be great. :)
OS X Thundercat
Obviously, they need to make a future version named: OS X Clouded Leopard
OSX Pussy
OS X Lion King then upgrading to OS X Hakuna Matata
OS X SaberTooth could work… but I’m bored with the cat code names. Time for them to come up with a new theme
Liger would be hilarious haha
Tiglon, White Lion, White Tiger
Thundercats hoah! Oh wait. That’s taken by the Cartoon Network.
Yep. Your eyes are not lying to you.
Which will be followed by…
>Thomas Kaarup
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Bobcat
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Thomas, thanks for suggesting my namesake, but you forgot my Cousin Tom… Cat.
Bob
@mr_bee
Jaguars and Leopards are not the same. They are two different species.
OS X Liger. What’s a liger?
It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed… bred for its skills in magic.
I would call the next one: “Sea Lion” which would allow Apple to change
from cats to sea creatures. This would also likely coincide with the
OSX/iOS “merge”
LOL guys Apple actually gives us hints in OSX of what the new operating sustem’s name will be… with every release, if you go check the given desktop images, in system preferences (there where you change your screensaver) under you’ll see the animals, currently in Lion you’ll see an Elephant and a Zebra… I’m sure Apple is going to go the BIG FIVE route from now on i.e. OSX Zebra, OSX Elephant, OSX Rhino, OSX White Rhino, OSX Black Rhino. It’s been like that since Tiger with each upgrade if you check the desktop images the current animal falls away and get replaced with the up and coming animal… I would know I worked for Apple….
I suspect it will be Lynx, but I have another suggestion. A long shot, but inspired by a comment I read on a Macworld comment.
Check it out on my blog and let me know what you think :)
http://digital-life-blog.tk/
Considering that they wud continue with cat naming convention, there is huge chance for OS X 10.9 to be named as OS X Liger…A Liger has the best of both worlds i.e. a Lion and a Tiger..
Otherwise they cud call it OS X Smilodon.. Its an extinct ice-age ferocious cat. A Smilodon is a specific type of Saber-tooth.
OS X Mavericks? It would be a great name.