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[Badlucktroll]

Apple is following a naming scheme that Microsoft popularized in the 90s with Windows 95, and Windows 98.

Apple To Rename Operating Systems With Year-Based Numbering - AppleMagazine

Apple’s 2025 operating systems overhaul renames iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS to year-based iOS 26. Here's what you need to know!

applemagazine.com

also the new interface is called Solarium

 

[ResilientBanana]

Remember when Microsoft was a piece of shit for this?

 

[AJUMP23]

OS 25 is really 19.

 

[Mistake]

Except for photo/video enhancements, I think ios 10/11 was the best. Not so many hidden tweaks and easier to use. Now every update seems to be "security features and more pride crap"

At least their naming makes a little more sense if it's just forks of the same thing

 

[Unknown?]

Everyone should switch to Graphene OS.

 

[bitbydeath]

Remember when Microsoft was a piece of shit for this?

No. But they did get a lot of flack switching from years to ME.

Windows 95 was insanely popular.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Microsoft:

 

[ResilientBanana]

Everyone should switch to Graphene OS.

Sounds difficult

 

[sono]

Maintaining a unique os is a big undertaking and cost why not use linux

 

[Puscifer]

Sounds difficult

It's really not

Maintaining a unique os is a big undertaking and cost why not use linux

What an odd thing to say....

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Maintaining a unique os is a big undertaking and cost why not use linux

AFAIK they all share the same kernel and a LOT of core libraries.

 

[MrCunningham]

No. But they did get a lot of flack switching from years to ME.

Windows 95 was insanely popular.

Windows ME was a weird thing, because it was the last of the 9X kernel OS'es. At that point in time, Microsoft were not sure if they should continue Windows 9X, or move the consumer base over to NT. So Windows ME saw a lot of features from Windows 2000 back ported to it. It's a (pretty big) update on Windows 98SE and also breaks native DOS Shell.

Windows 2000, not entirely a public OS, was a specialty use case... but I knew people who were using it as their main OS. Windows XP was the first public NT Kernel OS.

Vista was a transitional OS to 64-bit. Windows 7 (confusing as fuck name), first mainstream 64-bit OS from MS. Where the 64-bit OS was the default and the 32bit one was the alternative.

 

[SJRB]

Makes sense and in hindsight amazed they didn't do this years ago. They are running iOS, ipadOS, WatchOS, macOS, visionOS all with different naming schemes that update yearly.

Just unify that stuff.

 

[EviLore]

Makes sense.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I'm pretty excited about solarium.

What is Solarium? Everything we know about Apple's biggest UI overhaul in a decade

Solarium is reportedly coming to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, and Apple Watch -- everything. And it'll be all about bright translucency.

www.zdnet.com

 

[p_xavier]

No. But they did get a lot of flack switching from years to ME.

Windows 95 was insanely popular.

it was confusing with Windows 2000. I mean just look at the X-Box naning convention on how silly it is, Plus Windows 7 go to about screen it shows Windows 6.1.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

I'm pretty excited about solarium.

What is Solarium? Everything we know about Apple's biggest UI overhaul in a decade

Solarium is reportedly coming to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, and Apple Watch -- everything. And it'll be all about bright translucency.

www.zdnet.com

 

[violence]

…but they never used Cougar.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Why does anyone care… at all?

 

[Magic Carpet]

The rename is welcome, I'm hoping they will give my M4 iPad more Macbook like abilities in this new update as well.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I wonder what things would be like now if Apple had decided to go with BeOS instead of OpenStep for the foundation of Mac OS X. Steve Jobs convinced Gil Amelio that BeOS wasn't right for the future

 

[Trilobit]

I'm gonna start doing the same. Y'all are now seeing Trilobit 26. I'm not better than Trillobit 23, but in the very least I'm newer.

 

[Mexen]

Everyone should switch to Graphene OS.

Go back to /g/

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