MacOS should not be lower case because the m in Mac is capitalized because Mac is a proper name for the Macinstosh computer.
watch and tv in watchOS and tvOS are lowercase as semi-generic references because the actual products are names Apple Watch and Apple TV. Without the word 'Apple' the word is generic.
Othewise, WGAF? Don't we have better things to talk about?
Since iOS is a variation on OS X, the change seems unfocused and confused. Like everything else Apple has done lately, it seems like an unimportant waste of time and energy.
Since iOS is a variation on OS X, the change seems unfocused and confused. Like everything else Apple has done lately, it seems like an unimportant waste of time and energy.
Perhaps you should go work for them in product strategy and positioning, given your expertise in passing judgment with so few facts I'd bet they'd be grateful for your help because they've obviously been doing it wrong all these years, unprofitable company they are.
Oh sure, if you say so. It may be fine to hundreds of millions of others, but not you, so case closed. Nevermind the fact that it's iOS, tvOS, watchOS, but this one should be capitalized cause a troll like you says so.
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
You must be new here. On this board, "troll" is a synonym for "person who has an opinion that I personally disagree with."
MacOS should not be lower case because the m in Mac is capitalized because Mac is a proper name for the Macinstosh computer.
watch and tv in watchOS and tvOS are lowercase as semi-generic references because the actual products are names Apple Watch and Apple TV. Without the word 'Apple' the word is generic.
Othewise, WGAF? Don't we have better things to talk about?
And yet you make no complaints about tvOS. TV is always uppercase because it is an initialisation of television so your comment about it being generic would only stand if it was called "televisionOS" but it's not.
Capitalization aside, the new name makes it sound like Apple is going back to Classic. The name "Mac OS" was previewed in 7.5 (1995) and made official in 7.6 (1997) with Mac clones. From 10.0 through 10.6 "Snow Leopard", it was "Mac OS X". Only starting in Lion did it become "OS X".
Personally as a long time Apple user and beta tester who tested OS X, I think changing the name is pointless. Nobody is going to confuse OS X with iOS or tvOS. I'll bet Steve Jobs would have put a stop to this.
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watch and tv in watchOS and tvOS are lowercase as semi-generic references because the actual products are names Apple Watch and Apple TV. Without the word 'Apple' the word is generic.
Othewise, WGAF? Don't we have better things to talk about?
This seems very natural / logical to me.