More evidence of 'macOS' rebranding surfaces on Apple website
In another subtle hint that Apple plans to rebrand its desktop operating system "macOS," the company on Wednesday published a support document containing reference to the new naming convention alongside software pillars iOS, tvOS and watchOS.
As seen in the screenshot above, taken from an iTunes developer resource page covering upcoming changes to App Store revenue sharing, Apple refers to its Mac operating system as "macOS" -- with a lowercase "m" -- instead of OS X.
Apple has not voiced intent to switch away from OS X, but the company is dropping hints that a name change may be in the offing. In April, for example, an environmental FAQ webpage labeled Macs as "MacOS" devices, while at the same time making reference to OS X.
MacOS first popped up in a framework in March as part of Apple's OS X 10.11.4 release. The use of a capital "M" in April and a lowercase "m" today suggests internal branding might be in flux.
While Apple has yet to make an official announcement, it has been speculated that the company will do so at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference next week. Apple is expected to reveal roadmaps for of its major software platforms at the event.
As seen in the screenshot above, taken from an iTunes developer resource page covering upcoming changes to App Store revenue sharing, Apple refers to its Mac operating system as "macOS" -- with a lowercase "m" -- instead of OS X.
Apple has not voiced intent to switch away from OS X, but the company is dropping hints that a name change may be in the offing. In April, for example, an environmental FAQ webpage labeled Macs as "MacOS" devices, while at the same time making reference to OS X.
MacOS first popped up in a framework in March as part of Apple's OS X 10.11.4 release. The use of a capital "M" in April and a lowercase "m" today suggests internal branding might be in flux.
While Apple has yet to make an official announcement, it has been speculated that the company will do so at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference next week. Apple is expected to reveal roadmaps for of its major software platforms at the event.
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They are all Interface variations of the Core OS X system.
iPad has had special features since iOS 4 why not at least give it it's own padOS?
Not likely. iOS may have been derived from OS X, but it's since taken its own path.
Remember the "PowerBook" being renamed to "MacBook Pro"? That was their attempt at promoting the "Mac" more, but lately they've been really pushing "Apple" across their products.... "Apple TV", "Apple Music", "Apple Watch", "Apple Pay", "Apple this", "Apple that". OS X just seems to no longer fit with their naming conventions. It doesn't promote Apple or Mac. So they are likely going to call it "macOS" with some fancy new branding and marketing speak to support it. I'm okay with that. Times change. We adapt. As long as they don't name it "Apple OS"...
What really matters to me is that they become more responsive to a perfect user interface and experience, not just focusing on big, bold new features! We're now on 5 updates to OS X 10.11 and there's still some UI glitches that are being ignored. According to one developer, the bug report is marked as "cosmetic", so has zero priority in Apple's developer circles. What a load of crap. It affects my use of this one app on a *daily* basis, multiple times a day! Not just cosmetic to me!
iOS, tvOS, watchOS, soon to be macOS, and one day carOS?
So dropping the capital and de-emphasing the OS name as a brand name could be seen as a acknowledgement of the fact the aim for the OS is to not get in peoples way and let the hardware and what it get do to be the product.
Because the UI elements, the basic usage, and the way people interact with the iPads and iPhones are the same. (The Pencil introduces some new abilities, but it's still the same basic interaction. Besides, who's to say they aren't going to make the iPhone 7 work with the Pencil?)
So, we have iOS which runs on i-Devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), tvOS that runs on the AppleTV, watchOS, on the AppleWatch, and macOS on the Apple Macintosh.
And before anyone says it, the iMac is clearly not an i-Device, and I actually think they should drop the "i" from it, and go with either just "Mac" or "Mac Air", to bring it in line with the other product line names. Most likely just "Mac", since they seem to be dropping "Air" from the other lines (iPad and MacBook - although there's no MacBook mini and no adjectiveless iPad).
Once again the OS is the product the device be it "mac", "tv", "watch" is the identifier.
It's a standard programming naming convention as well and a naming convention encouraged in Swift from all the tutorials I've seen. Check out the WWDC 2016 invite:
https://developer.apple.com
Checkout these tutorials:
https://www.raywenderlich.com/114234/learn-to-code-ios-apps-with-swift-tutorial-3-arrays-objects-and-classes
Where there's two words the first word is always lowercase and the second is first letter uppercase. It's just that OS is always uppercase based on it being an abbreviation.
I'd say the amount of difference between iPhone iOS and iPad iOS was as much as iOS to watchOS or macOS and the common elements would be consistent with what is common of all the family.
If padOS wasn't shackled to iOS it could push the features that would make the iPads a more distinct product. Even allow more macOS like features that would be very useful on such a killer lightweight productive machine.
Well Mac is a proper noun or a special word or what have you. watch and TV aren't
and I'm not sure why you're calling someone a troll for simply voicing their opinion