![]() ![]() Maybe Zuma, or Malibu, or Hollywood, or even Shasta. Since the release of Mavericks, the company has focused on California landmarks and locations, releasing Yosemite in October, 2014, El Capitan on September, 2015 and most recently Sierra (Mac OS X 10.12), which was announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference a few months ago and is in late beta testing prior to being released generally later this year.Īfter Sierra? Who knows. Notes and Reminders were no longer integrated with the mail app and stood. OS X 10.8 added the Game Center, iCloud and (after getting rid of iChat) Messages. This was the beginning of what Apple does today. It was the first OS X to be released under the Mac App Store for free. Here’s a handy visualization of the different releases on a timeline from Wikipedia: The history of macOS, Apples current Mac operating system formerly named Mac OS X until 2011 and then OS X until 2016, began with the companys project to replace its 'classic' Mac OS.That system, up to and including its final release Mac OS 9, was a direct descendant of the operating system Apple had used in its Mac computers since their introduction in 1984. OS X Mountain Lion was used to bridge the gap between iOS and OS X. Mavericks is also a famous surfing beach in Northern California, not far from the Cupertino headquarters of the company. In 2013 Apple introduced Mac OS X 10.9 “Mavericks”, which was the first Mac operating system to support 64-bit Intel processors. The latter was released in July, 2012 and was the last animal named release of Mac OS X. Then systems were released approximately annually: Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, the weirdly incremental Snow Leopard (now we’re at August 2009), Lion and Mountain Lion. Six months later Apple released Puma (10.1) which added lots of missing features from the first OS X release, notably including DVD playback support. The first official release of Mac OS X, 10.0, was known as Cheetah, and came out in March of 2001. ![]() That company was also founded by Steve Jobs following his departure from Apple in 1985. Not a member of the feline family at all! The current macOS is a UNIX operating system built on technology that had been developed at NeXT from the 1980s until Apple purchased the company in early 1997. ![]() Not unreasonable since Apple is a California-based company.īut even before that, the very first beta version of Mac OS X (back when most people were using MacOS 9 and had no idea what true multitasking was) had the codename “Kodiak”.ĭo some homework and Kodiak is a city in Alaska and the name of a type of bear both. Heck, the very latest version is Sierra.Īpple ran out of animal names at some point (actually the introduction of 10.9) and switched to famous spots in California. Well, I’m afraid your buddy is correct that not every release of Mac OS X has been named after a cat. ![]()
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