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I agree. Apple did file that name as a trademark in 2003 (along with the other cat names).

The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as the puma, mountain lion, panther, or catamount (Wikipedia)

 

I think the next OS will give 'touch' a nod in anticipation of OX 11 (which will not be a cat), so I agree with Apple][ that it will be called 'Pussy'.

Mac OS X LOLcat

Maybe "Liger"? Wouldn't that be hilarious: a cross between Lion and Tiger! Ballmer would lose his mind trying to figure out what that means. His answer: developers! developers! developers! developers! developers! developers! ....

Genetics! Genetics! Genetics!

Just a guess but cats till 11 seems logical to me.

That would be a good name to suggest the 'links' getting closer with iOS...

But they don't have to have a 10.9 before moving to 11.0.

Our OS goes all the way to eleven!

I'm thinking hawks for the next family line. (Would have posted the picture, but I don't have permission for that.)

I can't wait! Another opportunity to fail to fix the dozens of bugs every new release since Snow Leopard has inflicted upon the Finder, all in exchange for more Facebook access, which I need about as much as I need the voice of Howard Stern bone-inducted into my molars as I sleep.

Ahh you beat me to it. 

 

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... 
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most Operating Systems go up to ten? 
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly. 
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's better? Is it any better? 
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one better, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be computing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your App. Where can you go from there? Where? 
Marty DiBergi: I don't know. 
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? 
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. 
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One better. 
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten better and make ten be the top number and make that a little better? 
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

 

Don't forget the obligatory "Mac OSX has become iOS Pro", "dumbed-down", etc, even though there has never been a shred of truth in this. 

I doubt if they have anything on the go that it would be a "beta". A beta would be what they released to developers for testing, like the developer previews. Perhaps they have an "alpha" build going...

This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar_(slang)

 

Oh darn. You beat me to it. I was going to suggest Liger myself. So with a tip of the hat to Wikipedia…

 

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion (Panthera leo MacOS) and a tigress (Panthera tigris iOS). Thus, it has parents with the same genus Core but of different species UIs.

 

What the hell are you ranting about? It's an OPTION. You don't HAVE to turn it on. For me, I find having events integrated in my calendar and notification extremely useful. If you have no need of it, it has absolutely no effect on your experience. Oh, and strangely ML has been the most stable version of OSX for me- ever. 

I'm pretty sure that Apple is on the record as stating that OS X is now on an annual refresh schedule.  Phil Schiller stated it himself when Mountain Lion was announced.

If we're going to rationalize OS names then Android should be Honey Badger since "honey badger don't give a shit [about other people's IP]" and Windows 8 should be platypus because it's monstrosity of nature.

 

I propose "Griffin," a mythical winged creature with lion's body and eagle's wings. A good metaphor for OSX, which is growing iOS plumage.

good one! :-)

 

No offense, but you didn't put enough thought into that.  Sure, it sounds cool, but it makes no sense for more reasons than I could even begin to mention, starting with the fact that there never was a creature named "Sabre Tooth."  There was a Saber Toothed Cat, often referred to as a Saber Toothed Tiger.

I remember it was just less than a year after these reports came out in 2011 that 10.8 came out.

 

Come on, OS X Caracel!

No it wasn't. Proof being that the next major Apple OS appears in the logs always a few weeks after the release of the last one. Not ever before And no software project is built like that.

 

That's opposite.

I like Civet - those are those Chinese cats that people ate, which led to the SARS outbreak.

10.9 will continue the trend towards an iPod Touch-like interface.

OSX Housecat

These aren't cats in the sense that we know them. Biologically all cats are within the taxonomic family Felidae but most civets are in the family Viverridae.

 

Or NEW! EXCITING! FEATURES!

 

Like the one that insisted on saving files before I could close Quicktime player. Choices were "Save and close," "Cancel" and "Review Changes."

 

I could not find one that said "Just fucking CLOSE without doing ANYTHING, like I asked in the first place!"

I think XI will mark the official convergence of MacOS and iOS. A single unified OS that loads only what is needed depending on the device. Any naming schemes apropos that?

10.9 - OS X Mountainer Lion

10.10 - OS X Mountainest Lion

I'm going to go with the "OS that makes things contextually visible" The Cheshire Cat OS.

Note their patent for making components visible on an iPhone/iPad as the user needs them.

All our science fiction fantasies of touching cool, smooth, stone monoliths and glowing tracings of ancient power at our fingertips will be realized. You sit down in your chair, touch the solid metal surface, and glowing traces flow from your finger points. The interface and screen just materialize as tiny ionic fields pulse in the transparent aluminum.

Forget the "walled garden" -- this will be the "obelisk" -- the blank slab that comes alive.

OS 10.10 (yeah, we aint never gonna go to 11.1 baby!), will be a Software Hardware combination.

Now Cheshire will be somewhere between that, and it won't be completely invisible, but you will see it grinning back at you.

Apple probably has this all hush hush, as they are negotiating with an Alien race to sell their old junk to us ignorant natives.

Yes, the cats from here on out will be imaginary.

Sophia Vergara would be their ultimate secret weapon as spokesperson. You'd get the burgeoning latin demographic, and males with a pulse.

I like saber-tooth, but perhaps smilodon?

As long as it supports a stylus and a kickstand, I don't care what it's called.

While it's true that Apple said they were going to release OSX on a yearly basis, I wouldn't be surprised if they changed that policy now that Jonny Ive will be designing the HI, because such work can take time.

"Or they could go with names of Zodiak signs, there's 12 of those they can use for a while. Well known names and totally marketable."

OSX Cancer?

If they stick with cats and it's the final cat, the best option has to be OSX Top Cat

OS X Miao

OSX Sardine

(not a feline, but plenty of vitamins and omega3 for felines)

OS X Kitten



Where the kernel and Safari don't use 1GB of RAM.