New macOS is macOS 11 – OS X is over

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37 points·donatj··12 comments

I remember Steve Jobs saying this was going to be a 20-year OS. They came pretty darn close.

Next question: are they keeping it at 11.x now or are they just adopting the same numbering scheme that brought us Chrome 82 and Firefox 76?

Probably like iOS

Apple switched the name from "OS X" to "macOS" with 10.12 (Sierra). "OS X" has been over for a while now.

Is there any indication that the numbering change reflects a significant technical shift (eg preparing to target ARM specifically)? Or is this just aesthetics?

Someone just got tired of writing "10." in the marketing team, also they'll be able to have a versioning more like iOS which macOS copies already much in 11.x

I’d say because it added support to their ARM chips.

Current version does not say OS X. Just says:

macOS Catalina

Version 10.15.5

It changed from "OS X" to "macOS" in 2016.

You forget X is 10 in Roman numerals. Mac OS was still OS 10.x

20 years from now:

Introducing macOS 9000000.13.0 Pro Platinum.

Now with a more emphatic, less mercurial, less violent, and less passive-aggressive AI because each device contains 47% more genetically-engineered neurons. Each device is guaranteed to be personally-imprinted and infatuated with only you and do everything you need it to do.

At what point do version numbers become meaningless? Why not just rolling releases with a major number and a patch number? Or if the goal is to make it seem like fewer releases are happening, why not 4 components?

Makes sense to me. But why didn’t it become 11 when they changed over to Intel?

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