• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Weird that Apple has renamed OS X to Mac OS, my first thought opening the link to statcounter was NO WAY 8+% use an OS that was discontinued 25 years ago.

    WTF Apple?

    Opening Wikipedia it says Mac OS was introduced in 2001!?!?!!??
    WTF? That’s the year it was discontinued!!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

    macOS (previously OS X and originally Mac OS X

    Mac OS X succeeded the classic Mac OS, the primary Macintosh operating system from 1984 to 2001.

    For fucks sake! No it’s not “classic Mac OS”, it’s Mac OS. It was never named classic. Just because Apple fucks up doesn’t change the name of the original Mac OS.
    And no OS X did not maintain the same version number for decades. It was introduced as OS X 1.0, 10 is not a version number, it’s part of the name like with OS/2 where the number is also not a version number but is part of the name, and describes something completely different, namely that it was meant as the default OS for IBM PS/2 computers.

    Sorry for the rant, but the stupidity of Apple removing the X from the name and not distinguishing properly between the original Mac OS and the new macOS is just such a piss poor decision IMO.
    For instance Mac OS does not have multitasking! But macOS does.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      Further down the Wikipedia the most recent rebrand from OS X to macOS was in 2016.

      Still, seems fishy to me that 20% of the market share would be running a 10 year old OS…

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      It doesn’t say it was named Classic Mac OS. It says “succeeded the classic Mac OS”. That does not imply they named it “classic” anything. The word “the” being present actually explicitly means Apple did not name it “classic”.

      And I’m going to need a source on it being OS X 1.0. I lived through it and my memory as well as everything else says it was 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 etc.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      I have to disagree on side details: OS X did have version numbers starting with 10. I used it between Panther and Yosemite and I can remember Tiger being called version 10.4; it was literally printed on the installation disc.

      Yes, that means “Mac OS X 10.0” had two tens right after one another. Apple aren’t Microsoft silly when it comes to names but they can be silly.

      Also, it wasn’t introduced as OS X. It was “Mac OS X” until 10.7, then “OS X” until 10.11, and “macOS” since then.

    • codenamekino@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      I think its intended to line up with the iOS and iPadOS naming scheme. They pooped out an update earlier this year to bring all three OS’s up to the same version number as well.