Possible OS X 10.10 names discovered in trademark filings, continue with California theme
Trademark filings discovered in Trinidad and Tobago, a popular place for Apple to secretly file future naming assets, show the company's next OS X 10.10 operating system may be named OS X Sequoia, OS X Mojave, OS X Sonoma, and OS X Ventura. A WWDC banner highlighting the famous El Capitan monolith, however, points to "OS X Yosemite."
The trademark filings were officially lodged with Trinidad and Tobago's Intellectual Property Office on Mar. 11 and cover the names "OS X Sequoia," "OS X Mojave," "OS X Sonoma," and "OS X Ventura," each of which is a well-known city or geographic feature in California. Apple is not specifically mentioned in the official documents' text, first spotted by MacRumors, though the company is thought to be behind the filings.
Interestingly, the Trinidad and Tobago marks also mention two cities by name -- Sonoma and Ventura -- instead of a geographic region or attraction like Mavericks. It is possible that Apple may move to a city-based naming convention much like those used by other tech companies as code names for working projects.
A picture posted by The Verge, seen above, shows a banner going up for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference that appears to boast a cloud-topped view of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. A single trademark for "Yosemite" was also discovered in the offshore filings, though the date on that property doesn't match with the "OS X" marks.
Still, with El Capitan featured so prominently, it can be speculated that Apple may opt for "OS X 10.10 Yosemite." The filed trademarks may have been a smokescreen to distract away from the real name.
The trademark filings were officially lodged with Trinidad and Tobago's Intellectual Property Office on Mar. 11 and cover the names "OS X Sequoia," "OS X Mojave," "OS X Sonoma," and "OS X Ventura," each of which is a well-known city or geographic feature in California. Apple is not specifically mentioned in the official documents' text, first spotted by MacRumors, though the company is thought to be behind the filings.
Interestingly, the Trinidad and Tobago marks also mention two cities by name -- Sonoma and Ventura -- instead of a geographic region or attraction like Mavericks. It is possible that Apple may move to a city-based naming convention much like those used by other tech companies as code names for working projects.
A picture posted by The Verge, seen above, shows a banner going up for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference that appears to boast a cloud-topped view of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. A single trademark for "Yosemite" was also discovered in the offshore filings, though the date on that property doesn't match with the "OS X" marks.
Still, with El Capitan featured so prominently, it can be speculated that Apple may opt for "OS X 10.10 Yosemite." The filed trademarks may have been a smokescreen to distract away from the real name.
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Sonoma Valley is a geographic region. Lots of old vineyards.
Sonoma Valley is a geographic region.
As well as a city and county, so it could go either way.
As well as a city, and county.
It is, but the article assumes "Sonoma" is named after a city, when it would make more sense that it's actually named after the famous valley where a lot of California's original vineyards and wineries were started.
"OS X Silicon" ?
If there going to do valleys..... like Sonoma and Yosemite.
Half Dome
Glacier Point
Happy Isles
Ahwanee
Bathroom near Curry Village where I banged my GF
Tuolomne Meadows
Regardless of which of these etymologies is correct, if any, the term referred to the valley well before the city and county were formed.
According to Jack London, who had a ranch there, the Native American word Sonoma means "valley of the moon." He used it for his book of the same name. But there are several other possible translations for Sonoma. According to the Miwok tribes that lived in the valley, and the Pomo, it meant "valley of the moon" or "many moons". White settlers may have accidentally translated the words "many moons" into "valley of moons". Miwok legends say that the moon seemingly rose from this valley, or was "nestled" in the valley, or may have even sprung up multiple times in one night.
In the native languages there is also a constantly recurring ending tso-noma, from tso, the earth; and noma, village; hence tsonoma, "earth village."Other sources say Sonoma comes from the Patwin tribes west of the Sacramento River, and their Wintu word for "nose". Per California Place Names, "the name is doubtless derived from a Patwin word for 'nose', which Padre Arroyo (Vocabularies, p. 22) gives as sonom (Suisun)."
Spaniards may have found an Indian chief with a prominent protuberance and applied the nickname of Chief Nose to the village and the territory. The name may have applied originally to a nose-shaped geographic feature.
Look at that, even a banner can lead to learning about things we otherwise may have never discussed.
If Apple were naming the next version of OS X after places in New Mexico, we could be using OS X Truth or Consequences, just rolls right off the tongue.
If Apple were naming the next version of OS X after places in New Mexico, we could be using OS X Truth or Consequences, just rolls right off the tongue.
There is a California town called Weed, mentioned in John Steinbeck's classic "Of Mice and Men" as the place the two protagonists were fleeing from.
Of course, weed has picked up some other colloquial meanings along the way.
OS X Weed. Could be quite inspirational, if not particularly motivating.
Good luck to anyone who wants to bitch about OSX10.10
I'll wait for OSX Sawtooth.
Great national parks would make a good naming convention now that great cat names are almost exhausted. But I hope they'll include parks outside California. Nothing on the planet comes close to Yellowstone.
Apple is a California company, that's why they choosing the name of inspirational California places.
Perhaps some Wyoming electronics company can use Yellowstone as a marketing name.
Don't hold your breath if you're waiting for Apple to run out of inspirational California names.
They still need to release:
OS X Devil's Postpile
OS X Badwater Basin
OS X Donner Pass
OS X Death Valley
amongst others...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California
Can't wait for OS X Compton.
Yes, Ventura is also a county.
Other nice California names:
Zzyzx
Cucamonga
Paradise
Popular? Something not quite right with that phrasing...
That's like saying Cupertino is a popular place for Apple Headquarters.
I was going to post about Zzyzx earlier but decided against it. Interesting etymology and a nifty trivia fact if you look up the movie Zzyzx Road.